Can't view PDF links with Safari

When I'm online with Safari, and click on a PDF link, Safari tries to view it using QuickTime, and all I get is the first page. (I have the latest version of Adobe Reader.) If I use Safari to view a PDF file that is already on my hard drive, once again QuickTime is used, but this time it plays as a movie and flips through all the pages when I hit PLAY. Somebody help.

Hi,
Try changing your QuickTime preferences:
System Preferences -> QuickTime -> Advanced -> (MIME Settings...) -> Images - Still image files -> PDF Image -> Uncheck this option
That's the path for 10.4.x and it's been a while since I used Panther, but hopefully the route is still roughly the same.
Hope that helps.

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