Adobe Reader is always default PDF viewer, why

I've told Leopard to "Always Use" Preview to open PDFs, but it always defaults back to Adobe reader. There is no toggle in Adobe to tell it not to be the default viewer. Am I missing something?
John

Just viewing PDFs.
I right click on the PDF in Finder. Open With>Other>Enable All Applications>check "Always open with">Select Preview
It opens with preview.......but, on the second time around, Adobe kicks in and is the default PDF viewer for all future PDF viewing.

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