How do you view PDFs in Safari 5.1, Mac OS 10.7?  I have no adobe plug-in in library.

I have read and read of other people with this problem.  Some have got satisfaction, but I can't get their solutions to work.  Safari either doesn't open a PDF at all, or at least I can't see it...the screen is black.  Or sometimes I can see that Quicktime is opening the pdf in safari, but I can't see more than one page of a multi-page document.  There are no buttons at the middle of the bottom, I do not have an adobe reader plug-in in the Internet Plug-in folder. 
So, either I see nothing of a PDF, or only the first page.  All the software is up to date.

Quit Safari.
Open the Library folder in your home folder as follows:
☞ If running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar.
☞ If running an older version of Mac OS X, select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar and enter “~/Library” (without the quotes) in the text box that opens.
Delete the following items from the Library folder:
Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist
Preferences/QuickTime Preferences
Relaunch Safari and test.

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