Automatically bring up pdf files in Preview (or at least Safari)

Ideally, I would like the ability to click on a pdf file in Safari and have it automatically bring it up in Preview. I believe you need a plug-in for that and it looks like that doesn't exist (or does it). Assuming that's the case, I would settle for bringing up the pdf in Safari and then doing a ctrl-click to open with Preview. Right now opening a pdf in Safari opens a separate little window which takes more than a few seconds. It used to open up in Safari, but in all my messing around trying to figure this out, that stopped working and I can't figure out how to make it do that again.
Here's my situation and what I've tried so far. First, I have an Intel Mac and don't want to run under Rosetta for performance reasons (things take twice as long!), so Adobe, Shubert's plug-ins, etc. won't work. Adobe is too slow anyways, but I kinda like Shubert's. I've set my default pdf reader for all pdf files to Preview. I've tried turning Adobe's option to use it as the default browser plug-in on and off. I've reinstalled Adobe, removed it and reinstalled it again. I've removed the Adobe plug-in from the Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder and put it back again.
I've tried making this work with every conceivable combination of the above with no luck. Like I said, if I could just get back to having a pdf open in the Safari browser, I could make it work from there to open Preview. But if there's any way to open Preview directly from opening a pdf in Safari, that would be the bomb. Or if anyone knows of any other good pdf browser plug-ins that work with Intel based Macs running safari natively, that would be acceptable too. Spent many hours researching this on the boards as well as trying stuff. Hopefully someone can steer me correctly. Thanks.
MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz 2GB memory 100GB 7200 HD 60GB Photo iPod   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Well Starman, I did everything you said to do to reinstall Safari and it still brings up that separate little window as opposed to bringing up the pdf in the browser. The Software Update didn't do anything after reinstalling Safari, so I reinstalled 10.4.8. Still no luck with the pdf.
One interesting thing I tried is that I set Safari so it would run using Rosetta and then set Adobe Acrobat to use the plug-in. When I brought up a pdf, it used the Adobe plug-in, but it still brought it up in a separate window and not within the browser. When running under Rosetta without the Adobe Plug-In turned on, it brought the pdf up in the separate little window again, but not the Adobe Plug-In - similar to when not running under Rosetta.
Now a few days ago I did download the Shubert Plug-In and turned Rosetta on so I could check it out. It brought up that plug-in in that little window. Now I'm not sure of this, but I think that was the first time that little window came up and I haven't been able to get rid of it since. I trashed the Shubert Plug-In, but could it be possible that something from that is hanging out there causing this problem? Or?

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