Jacks_Adobe Problem

Damn Adobe. What the hell are you doing to my computer?? It seems you have gotten laid back and cocky because everyone uses your products. You have bought enough companies to rule the world now and you don't care about making customers happy?

Since I use windows as my main operating system I am forced to reformat every 30 days to keep it running fast enough. After this month's reformat (on the 1st) everything went fine. That was until I had to install the virus known as Adobe Reader. I needed to read a contract for a job. So I go through the monthly bull shit that is Adobe reader... No, I don't want the Google tool bar. No, I don't need your crappy photo album starter. I just wanna be able to open a freaking pdf. I start the ridiculous 22.3 MB download.
Xpdf is 6.3 MB
Evince is 968 KB
I only use the Adobe one for computability issues. But what kind of destructive crap do you have hidden in that installer?

Regardless, I use it this time. Then I go to open said pdf in Illustrator and it just stops working... Unhanded exception?? It was just working a little bit ago. So I see if I can get it into photoshop and there is the same problem. As a last resort I try Photoshop CS2 with the same freaking result. Did Adobe just give me software that conflicts with Adobe software?

Works fine in safe mode, but I can't work in safe mode. I ended up putting it on a virtual machine as a temp solution. Then I reformatted today (the 9th) and I was all excited because it worked again. I credited it to a random software glitch and went through the Adobe Reader bull shit again. Yet again it broke the software! So fuck it. No more Reader on my computer. You can die along with Real Player and Netscape.

Update: Looks like there are actually 2 things you need to cause this error. In addition to Adobe Reader you need a network printer that is offline. My linux print/storage server is off when I am not doing a backup or printing something. Apparently Adobe products need an inanimate connection to network printers before it can open a file stored locally. When the connection times out Adobe goes "WTF?" and dies. But only when you have Adobe Reader installed.