Pen annotation in Acrobat X leads to jagged initial stroke

I'd like to use the freeform drawing tool to mark up PDFs on my tablet, but I'm having a problem with drawing accuracy. For some reason Acrobat takes a split second to recognize that the user is drawing after putting the pen down. For example, rapidly drawing a large circle will produce a straight line from the initial contact point to a point that is something like 20 percent along the circle outline. This makes drawing and writing pretty much impossible.
Is there a setting that I can toggle to improve accuracy / response time? For reference, the Evermap Autoink add-in produces smooth and pressure sensitive annotations within Acrobat, so it's not a problem with my machine.
Alternatives exist, but are not cheap or have issues:
- iAnnotate PDF: near perfect but turns annotations into bitmaps
- PDF Revu is rather expensive
- AutoInk works, but does not allow the user to define custom pens beyond customizing the included 3 or 4 pens
System:
- Acrobat X (10.1.2)
- Win7 X64 Ultimate
- Lenovo X220 tablet, core i7, pen + touch

Yes, I am now back to smooth drawing with the Free Form Pen/Pencil tool in Acrobat using the January 2012 driver. This with my aged Intuos 2 tablet. It was not the case with the earlier September 2011 driver, even though that driver did work fine in Acrobat 9. Since Wacom could fix this with a driver update, I hesitate to log it as being a bug with Acrobat X; it's possible Wacom's earlier driver didn't account for some behavior that got exposed for the first time in Acrobat X. If it were truly an Acrobat X bug I wouldn't think Wacom could have fixed it in a new driver release. I do think Acrobat X does something differently than previous versions and that is tripping up some of the older drivers... added to the interface changes in X that I don't like, I'd personally have been happier upgrading to CS5.5 and keeping Acrobat 9 with its interface and lack of any driver issues, but time marches on ...

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