Help Menu Opens Everytime Open A Document

I have a crazy problem with Adobe Acrobat products. Every time I open a document with Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Reader the help menu opens and everything stalls until I click somewhere to close it. It just did it again when printing. The print progress dialog stalled until I closed the help menu.
This just started a couple months ago after using the programs for well over a year.
I'm using Acrobat Standard 7, Adobe Reader 5 on a Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.4.11.

And Appleworks 6 came out in 2003 but NEVER has an OS update introduced a new bug in the program!
If an update from 10.4.10 to 10.4.11 caused this bug then I'd say the probability is that the program had the bug in the first place but didn't manifest itself until now. In all likelihood this is not a conflict with the OS but a setting or an extension that is conflicting. I was hoping someone might have an idea to help me, not try to get me to buy an upgrade.
And how does this bug occur in both programs yet one is a version 5 product and the other a version 7, both started doing the same thing at the same time. What is going on in the Adobe background to cause this? None of my other "Old" programs do this.
I may upgrade my Adobe reader even though that program has gotten so bogged down over the years. I will NOT upgrade Acrobat because I just don't use it's capabilities that much. I got it with a scanner and I really didn't need it when all was said and done.
I would still appreciate anyone that might have an idea of what caused this and offer a solution that doesn't involve buying upgraded software I don't need.
(Sorry for the rant but upgrade fever bothers me. I've actually edited this post down from my original rant.)

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