Safari Insists on opening PDFs with Acrobat

If I go to a PDF link in Safari, it insists on trying to open the with Adobe Acrobat, which isn't currently licensed for my computer. When this doesn't work it crashes Safari. How do I get it to default to preview? PDFs on my computer are defaulted to open with Preview already.
Martin

Carolyn Samit wrote:
Unless you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, move the app to the Trash.
Well, I do sometimes need Reader. And it works fine if I simply choose, outside Safari, to open a file in it rather than in Preview. Part of the problem may be that I've got two startup disks on my Mac and the other one (where I don't have this problem) has Adobe CS4 with Acrobat Pro installed and licensed. I can't license it on this startup because of Adobe's licensing limit.
Also, go to Safari/Preferences - General. Make sure Safari is set as your default browser.
Tried that, Carolyn. Seems to make no difference.
The exact message, btw, is "Before proceeding you must first launch Adobe Acrobat and accept the End User License Agreement.

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