The latest Acrobat Reader - Adobe Reader 6.0 - has a horrible load time for me, even on decent machines. I found this article that describes how you can keep it from loading a zillion unneeded plugins and speed the load time:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041
It seems to help and I haven't noticed any problems yet.
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cool, does take damned ages to load!, like photoshop 
i doubt i'll upgrade... i went forever using 3.0, it was only a couple of months ago that i upgraded to 5.0
Good idea, Chris. Not much difference that I can see.
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