Adobe Reader 8.1.2 printing problem and rundll32.exe advpack.dll, query on reinstallation

MS Windows XP Pro v 2002 (SP2)

Desktop: Seanix Technologies Inc.rundll32.exe

AMD Athlon 64 processor

220Ghz

RAM 200G

 

Recently I accepted a download and installation of ADOBE Reader 8.1.2 (free edition)  It looks good, it opens .pdf files both on my hard drive, and on the web.  However, every attempt to print, using either printer (HP4 laserjet & HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-one) seems to start spooling - then a window popped up which said Print To File and had a window to input the name of the file.  I did finally attempt to name it, in hope that it would printto a file I could retriev - but that didn't seem to work either.  This occured on every pdf file I attempted to print for several days.

 

I search the ADOBE site and this forum and saw nothing quite like this problem, so I uninstalled and got a fresh install.  Spybot and Zone Alarm are giving me warnings I do not understand:

 

SPYBOT:

rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSSectionC:\WINDOWS\inf\GETPLUSo.INF.DefaultUninstall

 

The "Value added" entry is:   ' getPlusUninstall_ocx' 

 

Meanwhile ( well actually a little later) Zone Alarm warns me that ADOBE Updater is trying to access the internet.  - this makes perfect sense, and I am inclined to "Allow"  but is this the same thing as the above line from Spybot? 

 

Other strange things are happening, mostly when using IE.  pages often freeze or take a very long time to respond to mouse clicks. 

 

However the new install is now printing just fine - both from IE and from downloaded .pdf on the hard drive.  So one problem solved!

 

Will do a Hi-Jack log if things keep acting strange;  thanks for listening! 

 

CanJan

 

Thanks for any suggestions.