CS3: "Acrobat 8 Pro canot be launched..." message

I'm running CS3, and the Acrobat version is 8.1.3. When using Internet Explorer 8 OR Firefox 3.0.7 (WinXP) I get the following error when viewing Acrobat documents online: "Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional cannot be launched at this time. You must launch at least one other suite component (such as Adobe Photoshop) before launching Acrobat 8 Professional." After clicking "OK" the Acrobat document is blanked out.
In searching thru the Adobe site I find that this message is caused by Acrobat not being registered, and that running one of the suite components (i.e., Photoshop) will correct this.
I have had CS3 on my PC for some time now, and run Photoshop almost daily. This error message started appearing recently, so I am wondering what has changed/gone wrong. I know one question for me is what have I changed on the PC recently, but before going into that I thought I'd see if this one has an easy fix. Does it?
Thanks, Don

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3750

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