Help w/ Acrobat refusing to save downloaded PDFs

After downloading a pdf from the web, i do a "save as" to put it on my hard disk, and the first time i do this i get the following error msg:
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
AppName: acrobat.exe AppVer: 6.0.0.878 ModName: acrobat.exe
ModVer: 6.0.0.878 Offset: 003aea45
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\f396_appcompat.txt
Detect and repair and even uninstalling and reinstalling have not worked. any ideas?
thanks

You might also check the security and use ctrl-D to check the version. Those features should not crash Acrobat 6, but you never know. The other thing you should do that is most likely the problem is to update AA6. There are several updates available (check Adobe.com>downloads>Updates>Acrobat Windows). Be sure to install them in order (they are not cummulative).

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