Cannot view PDF Files on my Browser

I reinstalled Adobe Reader about a dozen times and not once was there an "End User License Agreement" box to accept. Then I reopened it from my "Finder" tab and selected the "Accept" box of the agreement, but every time I open the browser page to view a PDF file, a box appears stating that I must open my Adobe Reader and accept the End User License AGreement, then close browser and reopen, which I did and the box still appears! Help me! I have the most updated version on my Macbook!!!

Go to Mac HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins.
Trash the AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin files.
Go to Mac HD/Appications and trash the Adobe Reader app.
Go to [user]/Library/Preferences and trash the com.Adobe.Reader.plist  (to access your [user] Library, hold the "Option" key when you click "Go" from the Finder menu)
Empty the trash.
Download and reinstall Reader from here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
Once it's installed, launch it from the Applications folder and accept the agreement.
If Safari still gives you an alert try resetting it (Safari>Reset Safari from the menu bar)

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