Cloned my hard drive. now acrobat won't work. just opens for 7 seconds and then closes itself. huh?

Anybody got a clue why acrobat wont work after cloning entire computer to a new hard drive?
I 'repaired ' the installation and rebooted twice.
Acrobat just shuts down after 5-10 seconds.
I need help.
-Steve

Mavericks is free but a jump from 10.6 to 10.9 might break a lot of other software (particularly if running any PPC-only generation software) which could be costly to replace.  Yes, it will have to be done someday but if the OP's computer holds out a few more years then the OP will have saved buying all the Mavericks generation software that will be broken when OS 12.2 comes out and can make the jump directly.
So says somebody who still runs a G4 with iTunes 7.5 and is not looking forward to the day it dies and has to buy the "newest and best".

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