Problems running updater for Acrobat Pro

Since I upgraded to a Windows Vista computer 4 years ago I have had problems running Acrobat Pro Updater. This goes all the way back to v7. The installer always fails with error 1601 'Can't find network path.' I went through all of Adobe's troubleshooting docs. The only method that I found to a solution for the 1601 error that worked was to edit the registry by deleting all MS Office installer entries. Then running the updater. Then reinstalling the registry entries. Not a big deal one time but a pain in the *** over the last couple of years. And not terrifically elegant. After completely unstalling Acrobat Pro and installing new versions and CS Suites several times, the problem remains.
Surely there must be a better way to deal with these updates.

This has been a pattern since I started using a Vista workstation in 2007 with Acrobat 7 Pro and the original CS Suite. I'm now on Acrobat 9.x Pro and CS5. At one point I reverted from Office 2007 to Office 2003 thinking it might make a difference. It did not. So, it would appear that any version of Office and any version of Acrobat have this problem with some Vista installations. This workstation is running all current Vista service packs and patches.

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