Designer refuses to use Acrobat Pro for Preview

every now and then, Designer (9.002) stops using Acrobat Pro as its preview engine and wants to use Acrobat Reader. I have no idea what causes this. So when you try to preview your document, Designer tries to launch a thread using AcroRd32.exe and since Acrobat.exe is running, it refuses to display anything.
This means you cant use the JavaScript debugger in Acrobat Pro to debug your scripts.
This is getting incredibly frustrating because there doesnt seem to be a way to tell Designer to play nicely with Acrobat Pro again.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, but this has been working for a while now and only does this sometimes.
Anyone else getting this or know how to fix it?

Well it seems that you can actually (or used to be able to) debug Acrobat JavaScript from within Designer itself using Acrobat Pro as the Preview renderer. As it actually spawns a real instance of Acrobat.exe, the JavaScript editor can be brought up during Preview mode (or used to be able to)
I have noticed the Debugger blink up a window that disappears whenever I deliberately force an exception.
Now my question is: Is this a known bug (Adobe?) and if so when is a likely fix going to be released? Or has one?
If it is NOT a bug, then how can I report it as a bug (Adobe?)
LC Designer 9 SP2 / Acrobat Pro 9.4.1 / Windows 7 x64

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