"...when DOCs are over 400 or so pages..."

Good grief Michael, switch off the verbose mode when you're typing! You getting paid by the pound, or what? ;-)

Seriously though, I only bought Acrobat Standard, but I too, was shocked when bringing it up the first time. Let's hope for a 6.00.05 version that'll make it all better!

I don't trust bloatware. If a piece of software is so big that there is no single person that knows its design through-and-through, it's bound to break (said somewhat tongue-in-cheek, since the Space Shuttle software seems to do pretty well). That's why it's so nice working in our little embedded domain -- it's either broken because you did a bad thing, or it works because you did all things right.