Old/Legacy application requires Local Admin Rights to open Reader

Hi,
I've got few users who has a very old application. The app generates certain report in PDF format and then it's supposed to open it up in Adobe Reader. Currently, the users are using Adobe Reader version 6.
I'm trying to get these users upgraded to latest version of Adobe Reader. After some testing, it seems that this old application works fine if the users are given Local Admin Rights to the computer. The application can successfully generate its reports and then open it up in Adobe Reader.
The users are running on Windows XP SP3. While testing, I gave users full access to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\" and the legacy application's installation folder, since I'm not sure why the Local Admin Rights allows Reader to open. However, this didn't seem to help.
Is there anything you can suggest in this case?

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