Install error message: "error 1606"

Adobe reader has stopped working. Every attempt to repair results in the same error message: "error 1606 COULD NOT ACCESS NETWORK LOCATION %APPDATA%\." I cannot uninstall 8.1, install any patches, or upgrade to 9.0. Has anyone seen this issue and have a resolve?

Please see this Microsoft KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886549/
Some registry entry may have been corrupted, and it needs to be fixed.  If you don't know how to edit the registry, do you have somebody who is confident enough to edit the Windows registry?
Anyway, for now I just want you to check something in the registry - don't modify anything yet!
Click Start | Run | type regedit [Enter]
Once the Registry Editor is open, drill down to the following subkey
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
In here you should see multiple entries, one being AppData - what is the data value on the right side?  It should be %USERPROFILE%\Application Data.
Please close the registry editor now, and report back what you found.

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