Associating my current PDF files to Acrobat 10 from Acrobat 9

I am here in the forum because the stinkers at Adobe Tech Support said they could only help with CURRENT products. That's poor customer service.  I'm needing to point all my PDF files to my new Acrobat X Standard that I installed.  I removed the Acrobat 9.0 but when I go to Control Panel --> Default Programs --> Set Associations, and I choose .pdf and then click Change Program -- I do not see Acrobat X as an option to point my files to.
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Update:  I finally got it done by searching on google.  You can open the Acrobat program, go to Edit --> Preferences --> General and click the Select Default PDF Handler button and designate it that way. 

Hi orrery66 ,
Thank you for posting on the Adobe forums. Yes, the way you chose it is also a way to select the file association for it.
However, you can also set the file association by, choose the file>Right click>Open with>choose default program>select Acrobat from the list.
If, Acrobat is not in the list, click browse and select Acrobat.ex from the install directory (E.G.C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat)
Thanks,
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