Opening multiple document in single instance (window)

Someone here mentioned this: "Acrobat 9 no longer supports opening multiple documents in the same window."
This is disappointing.. does anyone know the workaround / hack?
Running Acrobat 9 Standard.
Thanks,
Devin

Unfortunately yes you're correct. The cause was due to no MDI support, which Adobe removed starting at v9.
Link: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobat/2008/09/mdi_vs_sdi_in_acrobat.html
If I find a workaround worth mentioning, I'll post it here later.
Thanks.

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