Macintosh- opens all pdf files on my computer at once?

Everything freezes and it won't me shut it down and close any windows. I then have to do a "force close"
This is the alert it tells me
"There was an error opening this document. The maximum number of files are already open. No other files can be opened or printed until some are closed"

Please help! Does anyone know how to fix this? I have Acrobat 8 Pro and 9 Pro on this
iMac. The verison 9 is having this issue. 8 works fine. I had no issues with either version until about two weeks ago.
Thanks in advance!
Cory

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