Adobe 11 Installation: Cannot Open PDF Files

I have iMac 10.6.8. OSX SnowLeopard. Downloaded Adobe 11 to be able to access transcripts. Successful install of Adobe achieved. Trying to open a PDF document that is sitting in my download file with transcripts and the screen keeps going back to Adobe advertisement telling me to download Adobe. I enabled plug ins. How do I open the PDF files ? Thanks Toni

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