I am not at all sure how my software got configured incorrectly, but for whatever reason when I am sent a PDF document and try to open it with the proper Acrobat PDF reader what I get is nothing but symbols and nonsensical characters. I believe the software reads the PDF file as a Word 2007 document as Word 2007 opens instead of a PDF reader when I attempt to open it. In addition although the PDF is only one or two pages it converts it to many pages with only a few lines of this gibberish on each page.

For example a two page letter was converted to 130 pages of unreadable symbols. Anyone ever have this happen and could you please advise what you did to fix it?

PS I am using Adobe Acrobat Reader X.