Help - text boxes/highlighting hidden unless selected in Acrobat Pro 9.2

I am working Acrobat Pro 9.2. When I insert a text box, it disappears when I click somewhere else.  I can only tell it's there If I hover over it - I get a black mouse arrow.  If I click on it and select it, then I can see the text and border, but if I click anywhere else, it disappears.  I've tried all the options and settings I can find.  It is set to show, not hide, all comments and text boxes.  Also, when I try to highlight regular text, it puts a little yellow, symbol above my text but does not highlight the text.  When I roll the mouse over it, a yellow note pops up with the text I highlighted, but when I move the mouse away, nothing is highlighted.  Again, I've tried changing all of the settings I can find related to highlighting but nothing works.  I use Acrobat on other computers and have used both text boxes and highlighting without any problem.  Is this due to a setting somewhere, or is there something wrong with my installation of Adobe?   Thanks.

Something to check.
To have text selected by the Highlight tool placed into the annotation's pop-up:
Preferences > select Category "Commenting"
There are three panes of configuration options.
--| View Comments
--| Pop-Up Open Behavior
--| Making Comments
Tick the last option (Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups) in the third pane.
Play with the other options as you may find others that are very useful.
For form fields:
Preferences > select Category "Forms"
In the first pane (General), select "Show focus rectangle".
In the second pane (Highlight Color) select "Show border hover color for fields".
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