Acrobat won't read online pdf links

For several days I've had a problem being able to read PDF files online. I click on a link which has a PDF extension I get an error message which says "There is a problem with Adobe Acrobat/Reader. If it is running, please exit and try again. (1014:1014)"
I have no problem reading PDF files from my hardrive and if I right-click on the same link and save the PDF onto my hardrive, I can read it just fine.
Any ideas what my problem is here?
(I'm running Windows XP, am using Arobat Reader 10.1.2, and the browser is Internet Explorer 7)

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