Help me please, Reader wont start!

Very wierd situation - Acrobat Reader would not start when I try to open a pdf file, instead heavy harddrive usage starts immediately, my PC hangs for some time and all of this goes on and on until I kill AcroRd32.exe process in Task Manager. After that heavy harddrive usage stops. This was going on with version 9 and recently I uninstalled it and installed Reader X hoping that this will solve the problem but the behaviour is exactly the same! I also have an old Reader version 5, that one still  works OK. But being old version I am constantly getting messages about new features that could be present in new pdf files.
Anybody has a clue what is going on with my Acrobat Reader X and how to fix it?

Hi guys
My question has not been answered. But I've got some additional information. What I found out is that the problem is somehow linked to my local user profile! If I create another user and login as that user any version of Acrobat Reader starts up just fine. Also, if I login as myself but start Adobe Reader under another user using "Run as..." again it starts up no problem.
What could be the problem?
Cheers

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