Pdf attachments won't open from outlook?

I have adobe reader version 10.1.6 and for the last few weeks, when I double click on a attachment in outlook nothing happens.
Sometimes after clicking 10 to 20 times it will finally open. This problem does not exist if I am simply opening a pdf from a
folder on the hard drive, or from a network drive it is only from outlook. The funny thing is, the computer sees adobe acrobat
as being open every time I click. Task manager shows tons of instances of acrobat open yet nothing is on the screen. Is this
a known bug? Do I just need to uninstall and reinstall or what? Thanks.

The PDF is not corrupt, it contains no data at all.
from the message source
--Apple-Mail=_694B8A93-CB52-4579-B4D7-2112F4893BEC
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=test.pdf
Content-Type: application/applefile;
name="test.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
No data here to make a PDF from.
--Apple-Mail=_694B8A93-CB52-4579-B4D7-2112F4893BEC
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=us-ascii
So instead of sending me the PDF someone sent back (I assume that is what I have as it is forwarded) send me a mail direct with that pdf and we will see if there is something wrong with the mail your sending, or if something is stripping attachments at the other end.

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