Help - Acrobat portfolios sometimes open wrong PDF

My organization has been using Adobe Acrobat 10 (10.1.4) to compile PDFs into PDF portfolios.  We have noticed that, if we open several PDFs from the same portfolio, one after the other, that Acrobat eventually starts opening incorrect PDFs (i.e., not the PDF that was selected).  Has anyone else noticed this problem and/or can offer a solution?
Our PCs run Windows 7 64-bit on new Dell PCs with 8 GB of DRAM.  We have noticed the problem of Acrobat opening the wrong PDF in a portfolio while using Acrobat 10.1.4, Acrobat 11.0.1 and Reader 11.0.1 to open and review PDF portfolios created with Acrobat 10.  We have noticed the problem on several different PCs and with several different PDF portfolios ranging in size from 5 to 9 megabytes.  The problem appears to happen fairly randomly, but only after opening several different PDFs from the same portfolio in fairly rapid succession.
If I were to hazard a guess, it seems that Acrobat (and Reader) can get mixed up (i.e., memory corruption, possibly caused by a buffer overflow) if the hardware/software is stressed by trying to open too many PDFs in too rapid a succession.
Interestingly, Acrobat does not report a program error when it opens the incorrect PDF.  Nevertheless, it seems to be a program bug.
A simple solution is to not abuse Adobe's software by opening PDFs in rapid succession while reviewing a portfolio.  However, you have not met my boss.  Any help or advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

We are having the exact same issue with Adobe Acrobat 11. I don't think that opening and moving through the portfolio pdfs rapidly is the issue because the error occurs when we open one pdf, go back to the menu and then open another one. It simply opens the last opened pdf rather than the file I select. It happens totally randomly, as you stated. Only one folder in a particular portfolio (which had 5 other folders) had the issue. We had to rebuild the portfolio in Acrobat 9 in order to circumvent the problem and get the portfolio out the door. If you have resolved this or anyone has a resolution please post it. We have filed a bug report and heard nothing back.

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