Bill, I'm hexed when it comes to Office and Acrobat playing nicely together!
CF, I was thinking when you sent that, the Registry! Why didn't I think about that?! Nice call .... though I checked my registry and it appears the same as yours....
I'm hoping its all in the sequencing of the load, which shouldn't be the case but I have no other hunch. I ran into this when I upgraded to Acrobat 9 and checked my notes, which I couldn't find (note to self, don't lose your notes!) and I reloaded Office and Acrobat, in the sequence above, which I thought was right... But I think your might be on to something with reversing the order? Either way it make absolutely no sense we'd have to do that as these two are suppose to play nice together...