'stopped' status when opening pdf in Firefox

We're having problems opening the pdf's on our site in Firefox with Adobe Reader. More than 50% of the time the pdf will not open and the status bar shows 'stopped'. It's intermittent, the same file can fail to load 3 times but work on the fourth attempt. This issue is specific to Adobe Reader and Firefox (affecting all versions tested).
Example file: http://www.realtor.org/files/research/localmarket/2010/q1/lmr_ny_rochester.pdf
I've done some googling and it appears it's not an uncommon problem, but there aren't any identified solutions other than using a different pdf reader. Is there a known fix? Is there a way we can get more information on what specifically is going wrong (verbose adobe reader logfile, etc.)?

It's an issue that's being reported by many of our users. Currently it's been confirmed on XP through Win7 and Reader 7 and 9. The kicker is that it's only a problem with Adobe Reader displaying the pdf in-browser.
If using Adobe Reader but not viewing in-browser it works.
If using another pdf reader (PDF Xchange Viewer, etc.) to view in-browser it works.
I confirmed the issue testing on fresh Win7 VM with current versions of Firefox and Reader (so no Firefox extensions, Virus protection, etc.) using the pdf link in my first post (among others).
http://www.realtor.org/files/research/localmarket/2010/q1/lmr_ny_rochester.pdf
Can I at least get Adobe Reader to produce some verbose logging to help troubleshoot the issue?

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