Stopping the full screen mode auto-advancing

Question

(This was originally posted a week or so ago in what turned out to be the wrong forum.  I can't move the thread, so I'm reposting it here.)
I've been googling and searching  for this for some time; the only other post I've found[*] with the same  problem never got an answer.  So here goes.
We're using Acrobat reader  9.3.0 on XP.  I'm not very familiar with the software used to create the PDFs; trying to ask the authors what they used got a semi-garbled  reply including the words "presentation adobe photoshop cs2", if that  helps any.  (Their English is only so-so, and there's at least one layer  of overworked translators between us, so there's a good deal of mind  reading going on.)
Pulling up any of the PDFs in Full Screen Mode starts a  sort of slideshow, advancing every few seconds.  This is hellishly  annoying when trying to read more than a few words or follow more than  an inch or two of a line diagram.  I tried bringing up Preferences,  selecting the Full Screen tab, and unchecking "Advance every ___  seconds", but this had no effect.  Exiting the reader and starting it  back up after making the change also had no effect (and I double-checked  that the box is still unchecked).  I was going to try checking the option and then typing a 0 in the space, but it gave an error that  the number had to be 1-60.
Setting it to 60 delays the slide show for a  minute, for whichever page I happen to be viewing at the time of  bringing up the Preferences window, but after autoadvancing to the next  page, it reverts to advancing every few seconds.
The  "left-click forwards, right-click back" option was checked, and that  does work, but having to continually hop back a page and find my place  in a diagram again is tediously unproductive.  Hitting the space bar  just advances the page immediately, trying other space bar combinations  had no effect.
What  option(s) do I need to twiddle to turn off the autoadvance altogether?
- Ti
[*] http://forums.adobe.com/message/2206926#2206926

Answer 1

GKaiseril wrote:
This is the Acrobat and not Reader forum.
Ah, my mistake.  The reader is the only piece of this software family I've used, for some reason everyone in the office calls it Acrobat.  I'll see if I can move the thread to the correct forum, or if not, I'll post a question there.  Thank you!
Have you looked at the Preferences for your copy of Reader?
Use the menu bar "Edit => Preferences => Category: Full Screen" and look at the options. You should be able to set the time limit or turn it off.
As I wrote in my post, none of that worked.