Question re: Adobe Acrobat Pro. 8 - Navigation pane / Toolbar trouble

I was recently using my Adobe Acrobat Pro. 8 at work to edit a PDF document ... I commonly use the navigation panels and toolbars to make my work easier and yesterday something really weird happened ... As i was using the navigation panels on the left side of the screen, i started to click my mouse on the side panels because it seemed like the panels werent working (specifically the "Pages" display panel) when i guess my computer was just running a bit slow ... when computer came to be up to speed ALL my Navigation Panels on the side disappeared along with any toolbars that i had on the top of my screen (all i had was the Menu Bar aat the top of the screen) ... I tried using the "Reset Panels" and "Show Navigation Panel", selections but they didnt seem to work .. finally, i clicked on the "Pages" selection from the "View" --> "Navigation Panels" which brought up the panels , but when i clicked on the buttons, none of them worked and still dont work ... Somehow, this issue has changed all of the PDF files on my ENTIRE computer (where i have no toolbars and no working navigation buttons as the default view) ... I spent an hour on the phone with my company help desk with no success (even after removing and re-installing the program, which i was sure would restore the original defaults i had previously) ... Im sure that it has something to do with the preferences or something, but i just cant figure it out and its really slowing down my work .... PLEASE SOMEONE HELP !!! ... Thanks

Thank you for the response.
Do you know what the logic was to make such a dramatic change - since all the previous versions of Acrobat permitted the forms toolbar in the regular view? They must have thought this format was better. Any ideas?

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