PDF Maker Error

I have a Vista SP2 system that has Adobe Acrobat 9 installed that was working just fine creating PDFs from MS Word etc. Then I installed InDesign CS2 and now Acrobat gives an error "The Acrobat PDFMaker Server could not be loaded. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode". I have removed and reinstalled the software but still get the same error. A screen shot of the error message is attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Either repair or reinstall Acrobat 9. CS2 is marginal for VISTA, but contains a previous version of Acrobat. That installation is what broke AA9.
If all fails, uninstall AA9, remove any left over parts of the AA9 folder, Run the MS Cleanup tool on your system, reboot, and reinstall AA9. Probably another reboot and then all of the updates (install them in order). You can download the updates from Adobe.com>downloads>updates

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