Cannot save PDFs

I am using Adobe Reader 11.0.06
I can no longer save PDFs. They open but when I save them to my computer I receive the following message:
Adobe Reader could not open [XXXX.pdf] because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
This happens to all of my attempts to save ever since I downloaded the new 11.0.06 version. Doubt it is realated, but I recently posted a problem that this version did not allow me to highlight text. Based on the responses I realized that Adobe probably had not downloaded properly so I re-downloaded it. That seemed to work (I get functionality in the Comment section now and can highlight, etc) but now I can't save PDFs.
Any help is much appreciated. Never realized how many PDFs I save!
Thanks!

I use a Mac OS X version 10.8.5
I have always opend PDF's either from a website or from various emails and from online class links and save them using
> File
> Save As
and then saving it to the Finder window on the Mac.
No problems before, just now with 11.0.06
Thanks for your help!

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