kat -

Quite likely the .aom file you found is the download manager from Adobe. The latest (7.0.7) version of Reader is an enormous ~20 MB. When you start the download, the file manager may be downloaded first, so that it can allow you to resume an incomplete or interrupted download of the "real file" you're attempting to get.

Adobe instructs you to click on "Run" when you start the download of the the new reader, but you can still click "Save File As" and put the installation file somewhere on your machine.

The real "Reader Installation File" that I got is:

AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe 20,757 KB

The .aom "installer" should self-delete when the download is complete, but if the real download doesn't finish the installer might still be on your machine. If it was still on your machine, it's most likely that you didn't get a completed download of the reader.

Note: I have not checked to verify that the AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe that I got with the "Save As" is the installer that will unpack and load the executable Reader, and is not just a "runnable file." I already (supposedly) have the latest updates, so I'm reluctant to "execute" the download on my machine. I'm assuming it's an installer, since my Acrobat 7\Reader shows 240 Files in 107 Folders and a total of 59,246,821 bytes. (Since we have Acrobat, I may have some "extras.")

John