I'm sorry, Jim - my post was somewhat misleading.

>Ahhh... I was addressing the SUBJECT of the thread.
>
>Yours is a 'special' situation... maybe the full product install gives a perfectly good Acrobat Reader while the download of only it is the problem.
>
>cheers
>
>>Hi, Jim
>>
>>I can't say anything - I've never used Acrobat Reader. I have the full thing.
>>
>>>Interesting... I installed Acrobat Reader 7.0 on a new PC running XP Pro SP2 and it simly wouldn't work.
>>>I was in a rush, so copied a prior download from another machine of version 5 and it runs fine.
>>>
>>>cheers
>>>