"View Pdf After Exporting" Moves Acrobat to Background

Wow, even this forum is buggy. I just lost my entire post because the "server wasn't responding". That'll teach me to copy and paste my post into a text file before hitting the Post Message button.
Here goes again:
I've tried getting an answer for this problem in the InDesign forum with no response after a week.
OSX 10.6.7
Acrobat 9.4.3
InDesign 7.0.3
Conditions:
Step 1) Only InDesign is running. I make a pdf with the "View Pdf After Exporting" box checked. The pdf is created, Acrobat opens and displays my pdf for me as it did in 8 and before.
Step 2) With only InDesign and Acrobat running, I repeat step 1 above, I get the same result EXCEPT that Acrobat immediately pops into the background.
This never happened with any version previous to InDesign CS5 and happened before I installed Acrobat 9, sending Acrobat 8 into the background.
This is a very frustrating bug.

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