Empty PDF in IE after opening FDF directly from Outlook

Hi,
im currently facing a old/known problem and i found no optimal solution for it.
One of our clients migrated from XP to Win7 and since that the opening of a FDF-file from Outlook only opens the empty PDF in IE (Internet Explorer).
(I found the problem in this forum, but no solution: "FDF file not opening in IE 8 with Adobe reader 9 or Adobe pro 9" - http://forums.adobe.com/message/3753591#3753591 )
I did some investigation and found, that the problem seems to be the Folder "C:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files", where Outlook saves the FDF-file temporarily to open it with IE. (this folder is a Windows-'Systemfolder', the FDF-file can be found in a hidden subfolder 'Content.Outlook\????????\' (??..?? are various alphanumeric chars))
If you browse to that folder and opens the FDF manually it shows the same behaviour (only empty PDF) as opened with Outlook.
If you copy the FDF out of the 'Temporary Internet Files' eg. to 'C:\Users\MYUSER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\' or Desktop and then opens the FDF the PDF will be opened correctly filled within IE.
After playing a lot with IEs Security-Settings i found that disabling the 'protected mode' for the 'Internet'-zone solves the problem and PDFs get opened filled, but for security reasons this is not an option (IE warns on disabling 'protected mode' that's a risk for your computer).
Another way I found was using another temp-path for Outlook-attachments - defined by registry-key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Security\OutlookSecureTempFolde r' - eg. 'C:\temp' (our client is currently evaluating this solution - it's also not perfect for security reasons)
Any other ideas to solve this problem (except my initially one - using Firefox ;-) - i think Firefox is a perfect solution, but sadly not accepted by the client)?
thanks

I hate to bring up an old post, but I also have the same issue. We also found that disabling the UAC solved the issue, but is not an acceptable solution for our client either.
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