Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.7: Asks for administrator password when launching

A few readers have reported an issue where Adobe Acrobat 7.0.7 requests an administrator password during launch -- obviously a problem for users without administrator privileges.

At this point, the only solution is to downgrade to Acrobat Professional 7.0.5. These are the steps for removing version 7.0.7 of Acrobat -- the earlier release can be re-installed from original media:

1. Run the Acrobat Uninstaller in the Applications/Acrobat Folder.
2. Go to /Applications and delete the Adobe Acrobat folder
3. Go to /Library/CFMSupport/ and delete edb1drv file.
4. Go to /Library/Application Support/ and delete the Adobe PDF folder.
5. Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.adobe.acrobat.uninstaller.plist
6. Go to ~/Library/Printers/ and delete AdobePDF7 (if listed). (Do this in all users)

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