Clicking on an email address in a pdf opens MS Word

Hi, a little advice if I may.
I am in the situation where people often send me an email with a .pdf attached.
If I click on the attachment, it opens in Adobe Reader, as I would expect.
There is an email address in the .pdf document, which is "clickable"
but if I click it, it does not open a new message window in my chosen mail client (Thunderbird), and it doesn't even open it in Outlook Express as I might expect.
Instead a small window opens that says:
"Microsoft Outlook - Starting MS Word as your email Editor."
I eventually worked out how to stop Outlook using Word as it's email editor, but as I have NEVER used Outlook, I would like to force Abobe Reader to open email addresses in Thunderbird instead.
But I cannot find anything in Adobe Reader's options or settings to define the mail client to be used.
Can anyone advise on how to achieve this, please?
Many thanks.
(I realise this is an identical question to http://forums.adobe.com/message/4183440#4183440, but that got no replies)

Hi. Thanks for the speedy reply.
Aha... it looks like there was some argument or fight going on about which program called itself "default"
As far as I'm aware, Thunderbird was definitely set as the default Mail Client, and if I click on a "mail to:" link in a website, the Thunderbird composition has window always opened..
Same with Word... a typed email address always opens a Thunderbird window when I click on it. (or Ctrl Click actually, as that's how I have Word set up)
I double checked that just now and even If I take one of the addresses in the .pdf docs which open in Outlook, and copy and paste the them into Word and they now open in Thunderbird.
I double-checked in my T.Bird preferences and saw there's a tickbox for "Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup" - and that was already ticked.
BUT... I thought I remembered seeing settings for default programs in Windows Control Panel "Internet Options" and when I looked there, sure enough, somehow that had been switched to Outlook.
Switching it back has solved the .pdf issue (as you'd expect!)
So I reckon there's something subtly screwed in my Windows Install where it's not entiely clear which is the default.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction - lesson learnt, don't ASSUME anything!

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