Indesign CS5 and Export to PDF

Hi Group!
Got a weird one here...
I've searched high and low for this but, I have a user who i just recently upgraded to CS5 (company still on CS4 for internal reasons), and noticed a strange anomaly when exporting to PDF. For whatever reason, somewhere within the operating system and/or application(s) when the IDCS5 file is exported to PDF, as soon at the PDF hits the desktop, or where ever the PDF file is saved to, Acrobat opens the file immediately after. Even before the PDF has finished ripping. Where do you suppose this setting is to open PDFs automatically like this? Anyone seen this? Thanks!

Hi Bob,
Maybe you can help with the CS5 problem that sends Acrobat to the background after automatically opening the pdf I just created with the "view pdf after exporting" box checked. In all previous versions, and in Illustrator, the pdf opens nicely in Acrobat and stays in the foreground so I can look at it, and send it as an attachment, etc.

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