1. It spontaneously starts without me triggering it and then runs forever.

2. While it is running, even with no other application software active, its use of CPU capacity fluxuates between 0 and 50 percent seemingly averaging out around 10 percent.

3. While running on its own, it constantly performs I/O during which its memory usage fluxuates up and down with a strong upward trend. Watching it for about 5 minutes, I saw it increase from about 18.5 MB to almost 21 MB. Over time, a runaway process with a memory leak this bad will eventually absorb all available memory resources and effectivly crash the computer. In the past two days, I have spent about 8 hours on the phone either waiting for someone to answer or talking to a tech to try to isolate a more serious problem than this one and perhaps address this problem as well.

I am not aware of any product other than Adobe Acrobat that will produce distilled files in high resolution suitable for high quality publication. It is absolutely essential to me that these problems be resolved with the Adobe Acrobat product. My only alternative is to revert to an older version of Adobe Acrobat which I am now doing on a production computer. That is not a viable alternative because that leaves a known and repeatable Acrobat flaw undetected and unfixed. According to Adobe, my more serious problem is one that they have never seen before so my single computer is the only test bed in existence that can detect, demonstrate, and replicate the problem.

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