Help! Cannot remove or update Reader 9.3 in Windows 7

Hi,
I am running Windows 7 with Firefox 3.6 and OpenOffice 3.2 on a Lenovo laptop with 200 GB hard disk, most of which is free. I had Reader 9.3 installed, and it was running fine. I kept getting notifications from Adobe that I should perform an update. So I attempted to do so. The update crashed and returned Error 1402. So I tried to uninstall with the Windows uninstaller. The uninstaller crashed and returned Error 1402. So now I can neither fix Reader 9.3 nor get rid of it. And I cannot use it. Can anyone tell me how to get the installer/uninstaller to work, or how to force a manual uninstall?
Thanks!

By the way, I do have administrator rights.
When I mentioned "sweating blood" I was referring to "seizing ownership" of the subkeys, as detailed here: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/71cdd66a-75ce-4e79-bace-8 9637e0dacae
Sometimes I had to go up a level or two before I could influence the subkeys. And sometimes I had to add a new key. In a few instances I had to name the key "command" or "win32" or whatever Adobe was looking for. In other instances I added a "new key" and then the subkeys that belong to the key in question appeared out of nowhere. In cases like these, I deleted my "new key" and proceeded to adjust the permissions on the subkeys. Since I was always going back to the same header keys, after a while I started adjusting the permissions on all the subkeys of the headers I was using: for example. if the header was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe, I would adjust the permissions on all the subkeys. After each registry adjustment, I tried to install the program. I found that I was constantly being sent back to the same registry "headers", so I started to adjust the permissions on all the subkeys of these headers. I believe that this shortened the process.

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