Show Comment & Markup Toolbar automatically with Browser Based Review

Hi,
We have a web-based application which displays PDFs in a browser-window for review using a SOAP collaboration. In all versions of Acrobat prior to v8.2, once the Comment & Markup toolbar was set to show for a PDF in the browser-window - the toolbar would always show when subsequent PDFs were opened in the browser-window (as you would expect).
However, since Acrobat v8.2 the Comment & Markup toolbar has to be manually set to show each time a PDF is opened in a browser-window (by clicking Comment > Show Comment & Markup toolbar).
This is very frustrating for users - does anyone know of a way (plug-in or otherwise) that Acrobat can be forced to show the Comment & Markup toolbar automatically whenever a PDF is opened in a browser-window?
Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can provide.

Try refreshing the browser instance.

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