Upgrading Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to 9 on Vista

I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista. I have an old Adobe Acrobat 5.0 CD which I was limping along with just fine... until now. Apparently Vista doesn't like 5.0. So, I purchased Adobe Acrobat 9... the upgrade. I cannot find any mention of which versions can be upgraded to Adobe 9, but here is what happened...
During installation of Adobe 9, I got a message saying that 5.0 conflicts with 9 and that I should uninstall 5.0 before proceeding. So, I did. However, when I ran Adobe 9 (after installation was complete), the program looked for a previous version of Adobe and couldn't find it. Well, of course not... it was uninstalled. But, the dialog said I had only to specify my old version, type in my registration id from my previous version, and all would be good... BUT, my choices start with Adobe 6, not 5.
SOOOO, I uninstalled 9, reinstalled 5, and have started the installation of 9 again, and come to the point where it recommends I uninstall 5. Well, one of the options is to proceed with the installation without uninstalling 5, and I just don't know if I should. I'm not even sure if the upgrade will accept 5 as a previous version, and I don't know if 9 will work with 5 installed as well... and I don't know if 9 will still work when I uninstall 5 afterward.
Any help or insgight into this dilemma is appreciated!

"Looks like there are big time problems with updates in Acrobat 8.0"
- we've never had one problem with an Acrobat 8 update. Remember that users on this forum are by definition not representative of general experience i.e. many are here specifically because they ARE having problems (either due to the product or their own making).
"If you have problems with AA6, I would question the wisdom of upgrading to a new version."
- I'd agree if the computer is more than three years old
HTH

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