Can't open Acrobat in CS5

I don't use Acrobat very often, so I was surprised when I tried to open it recently and got the "Acrobat was installed as a suite, please open another application first" message. I have been using CS5 for months now, many of the other applications. Does anyone know how to launch Acrobat without having to uninstall and reinstall CS5?

Unfortunately, that didn't help. I guess I'll have to try uninstalling...

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