Process stuck in START state

Hello,

I have a process which I cannot kill. It is stuck in the START state. Top
shows this:

37028 frem 1 100 0 0K 0K START 5:20 6.54% acroread

and ps shows this:
frem 37028 6.5 0.0 0 0 v0 RE 2:40PM 5:20.33 [acroread]

There is no entry for this pid under /proc.


How do I actually kill this process? It's been running for over a day now.
I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 Release.



Thanks,
Frem.
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