Hi Goates and all who have replied. Thanks for all the advice but I,m still in trouble. I have the latest adobe reader V.602 and have deleted and reloaed it without success. I thought the problem might be "Spyblaster" so I disabled it while downloading . I also have Norton 2005 and tried disabling it but nothing seems to make a difference. I can use the adobe reader from Outlook express ok.
At the moment I am trawling every discussion site I can find for clues!
Willby