Opening multiple PDFs outside of browser in Acrobat 9 Std/Pro

Just got off the phone with Adobe's TS and was unhappy that they took the functionality of opening multiple PDFs outside of the browser and have it be contained in ONE window from Adobe 9. Unless someone else can tell me how to set this option up again, I'm sticking with 8 until there's an update to this.

I believe this was a permanent change. See the following link and conversation thread:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5f77b/7
"Atin Wadehra - 2:39am Jul 30, 08 PST (#9 of 16)
Aandi,
The failure reason suggested by you provided me the solution for getting my my code to work. There is a setting in Acrobat to either open the each document in separate window or to share Acrobat's window.
The setting is Edit->Preferences->Documents->Open Settings section "Show each document in its own window (requies restart)"
Thanks for the help again
Post Reply
Leonard Rosenthol - 6:16pm Jul 30, 08 PST (#10 of 16)
However, that preference is NO LONGER present in Acrobat/Reader 9. In version 9, we ONLY operate in SDI mode. So even with that fix for Acrobat/Reader 8 - you will STILL break in version 9.
You MUST rethink your code...
Leonard"
Sabian

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