Adobe Reader 8 and Vista Install Issue

Good post on resolving a problem I also had with installing Adobe Reader 8 on Vista.  There seem to be many symptoms to this problem and the root cause is that Adobe has tried to apparently make the setup too smart and it ends up getting tricked up by something on Vista.  The workaround is to catch the installation files after the self-extracting executable has extracted them, but before it fails to start the install, and copy the files to another directory.  This is because the oh-so-smart Adobe installer deletes the files after it fails to install them.  Copy them to a safe place, then manually run the installation, which will work.  Hopefully Adobe will investigate this problem, which seems it may be related to User Account Control on Vista, and fix it in their installer.