Reader X crashes after 30 secs with Protected mode enabled

Having just deployed Reader X to over 100 PC's via group policy I'm a little dishartened to find that Reader X crashes after 30 secs of being open when protected mode is enabled.
Current setup is as followed:-
Clients are XP SP3, Vista SP2 & Win7 (all crash)
Server 2003 R2 domain
Reader X deployed via MSI using GPO with a transform created using the Reader X customization wizard (only set to disable updates as I'll push these out via GPO also when available).
The problem occurs with standard domain users (doesn't happen if you use an admin account to login and run Reader X), once you disable the setting for "enable Protected mode at start up" and restart Reader X it doesn't crash. I've been reading also that the protected mode creats a sandbox environment that some AV products are currently having issues with, so I've also tested by removing my AV on a test client rebooting and running Reader X with protected mode enabled, the Pc will still crash, so that rules out my AV product.
After each crash the client logs an event in the application log
Event ID: 1000
Aource Application error
Description:
Faulting application AcroRd32.exe, version 10.0.0.396, time stamp 0x4cc5e97b, faulting module WININET.dll, version 8.0.6001.18999, time stamp 0x4ccfa98f, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0002387b, process id 0xd54, application start time 0x01cbc2ec89ab4cba.
Anyone any ideas on why this happens?

I am seeing the same problem on Vista SP2 32-bit.  I enabled the Protect Mode log and see a bunch of errors relating to registry entries.  I am running Adobe Reader X 10.0.1 as a standard privilege user. The problem has been intermittent.  Repeated attempts to open the same PDF will result in Adobe Reader X failing after 45 seconds, then the next attempt will work fine.  I have had situations where an Adobe Reader X instance has been open for hours but a new instance crashed.  I have not been able to identify any trigger that might explain the difference in behavior.  The problem has gone away since disabling Protect Mode.
>>>
[05:31/19:10:43] Adobe Reader Protected Mode Logging Initiated
[05:31/19:10:43] NtCreateKey: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[05:31/19:10:43] real path: \REGISTRY\MACHINE\Software\Adobe
[05:31/19:10:43] Consider modifying policy using this policy rule: REG_ALLOW_ANY
[05:31/19:10:43] NtCreateKey: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[05:31/19:10:43] real path: \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe
[05:31/19:10:43] Consider modifying policy using this policy rule: REG_ALLOW_ANY
[05:31/19:10:44] OpenEvent: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[05:31/19:10:44] name: MSFT.VSA.COM.DISABLE.5900
[05:31/19:10:44] Consider modifying policy using these policy rules: EVENTS_ALLOW_ANY
[05:31/19:10:44] OpenEvent: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[05:31/19:10:44] name: MSFT.VSA.IEC.STATUS.6c736db0
[05:31/19:10:44] Consider modifying policy using these policy rules: EVENTS_ALLOW_ANY

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