There was a raise without a handler

I'm using Acrobat Pro 9.3.1 on a Macbook Pro OS X 10.6.7. Every time I click the Comments menu or the Help menu, I get this error: "There was a RAISE without a handler. The application will now exit." Despite my best efforts to find a solution online, I'm coming up empty. Any ideas?

This seems most often to be related to corrupted cache or preference files.
Here are a couple previous threads which discuss the problem:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/300610
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/300847
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1154711

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