My is Adobe Updater broken?

Hi guys,
My Adobe CS3 Updater is broken for some reason or another. It has been asking me to update to Adobe Acrobat 8.1 for a while now. Each time I accept for it to update, the thing does not actually work. Whatever happens, is is a continual loop of broken notification and updating. I know this whole thing is being caused by a corrupt file somewhere, I just do not know which one it is and where I can find it.
This should be a very simple problem to fix.
Thanks in advance,
Liberator.

Sorry, I should have been more clear in what has happened, and what I have tried.
This update problem has been happening for a while. This has also not been the first problem to do with things being broken on this computer. Finder, system preferences and Safari (among others) have all been partially broken before. These problems have been in contrast to another account on the same computer that has had no problems with anything. The Adobe Updater for the Acrobat 8.1.4 update was done successfully. Acrobat (on the other account) is now more updated; it is currently at 8.1.5. No matter how many times I click on "Install", the update does not work. I was initially thinking it was a permissions and an Adobe + system files corruption, or at least something like that. I am still thinking that, although of course I cannot fix the problem myself.
Thanks, Lib.

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