Acrobat 5.0 & Reader 9.0 Problems reading web PDFs

Greetings,
I'm running Acrobat 5.0 and Reader 9.0.
When I click on a web link to a PDF I receive this error message:
i The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Browser. Adobe Acrobat/Reader version 8 or 9 is required. Please Exit and try again.
In Windows my files types of .pdf and .pdfx are both set to open with Reader 9.0.
I run a similar configuration on another computer (Acrobat 5.0/Reader 9.0) and do not experience any issues opening web .pdf documents.
Thank you for any help!
Michael

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