Having issues with AA8 with freezing and shutting down.

After a successful install, this app freezes upon starting at the splash screen "Getting Started with Adobe Acrobat...". After about 3 minutes it will unfreeze for about 3 secs. at which point it will shut down without an error message. During the time that it is frozen, the hard drive is pinging intermittently so I assume it is trying to do something although I'm not sure what.
I am running it on an laptop running Windows XP with plenty of ram and HD space. Also am running without any of the startup programs loading which I believe is call the minimal configuration.
Any ideas as to why I'm having these issues? TIA

Actually, you should hold the C key to start up from a Mac OS X install disk. Holding the D key boots into Apple Hardware Test (assuming you've got the right disc in). If both of those things fail, resulting in identical behavior, then it's likely to be a hardware issue.

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