Using Acrobat PDF Browser Control in Vista

Hi,
I've written a .NET 2.0 WinForms application that uses the PDF Reader ActiveX to display PDF files. Everything works well in Win XP and Win 2003 Server, but when I install it in Vista, my app crashes. I get no useful error message, only "[My app name] doesn't work anymore" (This is a translation of the message i get in the Dutch version of Vista).
I must add that I used .NET Framework 3.5 with the Vista installation where I used .NET 2.0 on XP. I did this because there is no explicit support for Vista mentioned on the Microsoft Download site. I doubt this would have any effect, because of the backward compatibility.
Someone suggested me that it could have something to do with permissions, but I tested all this with an administrator-account, so this is out of the question as well.
Now, I'm out of ideas... Anyone with suggestions?
Thx in advance!
Greeting
Kristof

Thanks for your reply Leonard,
Well there were 2 versions installed on the system. Version 5.x and 8.1.2. I uninstalled the first one so I'm sure he tries to use the newest one.
I must say that the software was developed using Acrobat 7, but if I'm not mistaken, the application uses the acrobat version that is available on the system it is running on, so that shouldn't matter...

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