Unable to activate Acrobat Standard 7.0 in Vista

I've installed Acrobat Standard 7.0 in Vista (having previously done so successfully on two XP machines; I deactivated one of these prior to installing on the third machine). All seemed to work until I tried opening Acrobat - I can open PDF documents, but after a couple of moments an error message pops up saying "Activation requires that you have administrative rights on this computer. Please log in as an administrator and try again, or contact your system administrator."
I only have one account on my Vista computer, which is an administrator account, so that's not the issue. I'd be grateful if anyone can offer any suggestions. Thanks.

Vista locks you out of Administrator when running a program. It's one
of the "features" we pay for. Try right clicking on the program, you
may be able to choose Run as administrator or similar.
Also note that Acrobat 8.1 is the first to be formally supported in
Vista.
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