Uninstalling Acrobat X if installer corrupted

I cannot uninstall (or reinstall) Acrobat X because i get an error message "This patch package could not be opened". I guess this is due t a corruption of the installer due to disk problems.  Is there an uninstaller that I can use and/or instructions as how to manually remove Acrobat X ?

Dear Jeff,
THANK YOU ! The tool was exactly what I was looking for and it worked like charm !
I should have gone my-self to the donwloads ... but actually it is not referenced  (or I did not see it) on the parent directory http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/  ...
By the way, sorry for being late (you answered very quickly) but actually I'm in Belgium and if you are in the US, it was daytime for you and very late in the night for me.  So, I only saw your message when waking up today.
Cheers !
PS: I will post another question about how to copy the configuration of one installation to another on another computer.  If you have an idea about that...  

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