Is Adobe Reader really this bad?

Hi,
I've been working on a PDF for a while now, but I have found Adobe Reader to be completely useless. In fact it has hindered my progress greatly. I have to ask if anyone else has found this or if for whatever reason I have just been cursed with these issues. I find many Adobe products useful, but this is too much.
The biggest problem is that while editing text Adobe Reader will often crash and everything I have edited to that point is lost. When this happens I get an error saying,
|The instruction at 0x3a32333a referenced memory at 0x3a32333a. The |
|memory could not be written.                                                             |
|                                                                                                        |
|Click on OK to terminate the program.                                                |
|___________________________________________________________|
I have no idea what that means and I have not found anything mentioning it. I have tried re-installing Adobe Reader but nothing changed.
Other problems I have -
     The program constantly seems to be updated information even when I haven't edited anything; the cursor is always flashing between the pointer arrow and the windows blue loading circle, and the program is slow as molasses. when I enter text it takes up to 6 seconds for it to appear on screen. Not to mention the terribly unreliable and glitchy scrolling. I have to spend multiple minutes scrolling up and down hoping that it will stop on where I need to edit.
     Whenever I am attempting to edit a text field and I scroll up to find the information I need that is earlier on the PDF it sucks my view back down to the text field. I recognize this may be an intended feature but with my other problems it is extremely irritating.
I don't know if my version of Adobe Reader is corrupted or something. It's been doing this since I installed it, and I'm just trying to fill out my Eagle Scout workbook. I am extremely frustrated and tired of using this program, but it doesn't seem there is much of a choice when it comes to editing PDFs.
I can't imagine that this is the experience most other people have with this program because I know that Adobe is very proud of their software's quality.
I'm using an HP ProBook 4545s running Windows 8.1 Pro
System Specs -
     Processor: AMD A6-4400M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.70 GHz
     Installed memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (3.45 GB usable)
     System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor
I can't imagine it's a hardware problem because I can't imagine that Adobe Reader with it's homely GUI and seemingly simple construct is very demanding on a system, but it seems good practice to include all the information I can.
Thanks for any answers that can be provided, I really need this program to be able to work because I have to complete this workbook and time is running out.

Well if that is the case then it certainly answers my question. Although it raises another, I'm using Adobe Reader XI and I can most definitely open, view, and edit a PDF... well that may be saying a bit much since it does allow for entering text, exporting, and things such as that, but it doesn't do it real well..
If the answer really is I'm trying to use it for something it's not meant for I can accept that.
So I'd ask, what can I do in my situation then? I don't need a program for a very long. I only have about 24 days until I can't even work on this project anymore. Is there another program I can use that can edit a PDF that's free?

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