Trying to re-install Acrobat 8, everything freezes during installation & have to reboot

Hello. I've been having problems with my Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard software for months now. At some point, it got so dysfunctional that I was no longer able to create new PDF files, although I could still add comments and mark-up existiing PDFs. So finally, I decided to uninstall and re-install the software, hoping that this would solve the problem. Well, the uninstall went great, but then re-installing turned out to be impossible, apparently. I successfully downloaded the .exe file (all 327MB of it). But whenever I start the installation, once it get to the point where I'm asked to enter the Serial Number (and I do manually, as for some reason it doesn't allow me to paste it into the form in the dialog box), then it says that the installation of the components is starting (or something like that), and then the installation freezes, my entire computer freezes, and I have to do a forced shut-down. When I reboot, nothing has been saved of the installation procedure, and I have to start all over again. This has now happened three times, exactly the same way, and I'm getting extremely frustrated. I paid $320 for this software, so I expected it to last more than 3 years!
Please help me to resolve this problem - as simply and as quickly as possible! Thanks.

Hi Gautham,
Thanks so much for your response. I have an Acer TravelMate 6292 that runs Windows Vista Business. I have to say that when I first bought and installed the Acrobat 8.0, the PDF maker crashed frequently, but over time, as updates and fixes became available, it performed much better. But then a few months ago, it stopped allowing me to create new PDFs, which is a major drawback, obviously. That's why I decided finally to uninstall and reinstall, hoping that this would solve the problem. It seems I was very wrong!
As for other hardware or software changes, I have over time installed what most people have, probably, like my Canon and HP printers and scanners, McAfee anti-virus, iTunes, Nero, Skype, WinRAR, 'File-zilla', Open Freely, and so on. There is one weird software that got installed when I bought an external disc-drive: it's called 'ODD firmware' and I can't seem to get rid of it (it doesn't uninstall). But I don't know if that would affect the Acrobat.
Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
Jamila
Jamila Hakam

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