Starts by downloading file AWEXFiles.exe and freezes

System: MAC G5 OSX Version 10.3.9. I have had to reinstall PE2 twice today.

PE2 was working just fine until a couple of weeks ago, when it just began to stop and go. Today it just stopped functioning on startup. When I click the icon, PE pops up as if it was starting by loading whatever it is that it loads when it first opens up. Then a window opens up advising me it is "updating adobe online components from Adobe.com. Downloading file 1 of 2. NO personal information is being transmitted. File AWEXFiles.exe."
And BAM!, it freezes and I have to force the program to quit, from the Dock, because it won't respond to any other command -- the only thing you see is the whirling pizza. I can't make it quit from the toolbar -- the pizza won't let me --, nor it won't quit clicking on cancel on the download window -- the pizza won't let me.

I tried a second time and I got the following message, right in the middle of opening up the program:
"An error occurred while attempting to download a file from the Adobe online web server. The request was not understood by the server.
HTT #400 Bad request."
18:400
What could have gone wrong.
Thank you.

I can't explain what happened or why, but this should fix it:

With Elements closed, delete the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Web folder.

As soon as it starts the next time, go to Edit>Preferences>Adobe Online and set the frequency with which it checks for updates to Never. There never were any, and there won't be any now.

Thank you very much. It worked!

Appreciate it.