How can I operate Reader X in "Kiosk" mode?

What I need to do:
Open a single document via a command line reference and "lock" Reader from being able to go anywhere else. Initially opening the document is easy enough...just supply the complete pathname to the file on the command line.   I will supply all links that need to open PDF files via separate icons which reference each file's path.  Like I said...this is a "kiosk" type operation and there's only a very small handful of files that need to be served up.
1) I have used the customization wizard to set everything that I can using that tool... this does not go far enough
2) I have used javascript to get rid of various menu items that I don't want to appear.
(I'm almost there now...)
3) I've got it to the point where the document opens and *almost* all of the menu items I want gone are gone...not all. More on that later...
4) As it stands right now, the user can close the document by clicking the small "x" in upper right corner...but that presents the Recent File list and worst of all...BROWSE!
I need to get rid of browse capability!  I truly need to lock Reader down to open the one document called on the command line
Possibliities:
The "A" answer: If the user closes the open document, Reader itself closes
B) Lock Reader so that it only sees the previous document in a Recent list with no Browse button
C) Lock Reader so that it can ONLY operate in a given folder
I stated earlier that almost all of the menu items I want to get rid of are gone...I would *like* to get rid of the Comments menu and capability.  Customization wizard has a section that deals with that but apparently it does not do what I'm after because that setting does NOT get rid of the Comments item.  This is strictly a "nice to have" item...really need to find a solution to the other.

Adobe Reader doesn't have a 'kiosk mode', so the only way to achieve it would be to write your own application and embed a Reader instance using the SDK interface.

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