Cannot open small PDF's directly from browser, only large ones

PDF's will not open when you click on it from a website.  It gets "page cannot be displayed".  However, you can right click and save, and then the PDF opens fine.  This appears to only happen for "small" PDF files (< 5kb), while larger files (120KB+) open successfully.
We are using Acrobat Reader 9.1.  We have uninstalled & re-installed Reader with no change in behavior.
Thanks for any advice,
Tom Pitts

Your posting somewhat confused me.
It sounds like you have two versions of Acrobat installed. You say you own Acrobat 9. You also say you installed a version of Acrobat  CS 5.5. Does that mean you installed the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 on your computer as well? There is no such product as  Acrobat CS5.5. CS5.5 would install Acrobat X.
However, if you had installed CS55 you may have to open at least one of the other CS5.5 applications before you can open Acrobat X. That's because Acrobat X is not well integrated into the Creative Suite.
Am I understanding your situation?

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