Adobe CS3 wrecked my browser PDF viewing

I installed Adobe Creative Suite and suddenly I can't see PDFs in Safari. All I get is a grey page with an error message that a suitable plugin can't be found, anda forever spinning wheel. Then I deleted all Adobe (including Acrobat) and now I don't get the error but still a grey page and a spinning wheel. I want it back like it was, with the shrink/increase buttons and the PDF viewable in Safari.
Isn't there supposed to be a Preview plugin for PDFs?

We've been talking about this recently:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7491934#7491934

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Hi Krisis,
I have found a forum where similar query was answered. Hope this helps.
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