How to stop Acrobat trying to open PDFs in a Safari window?

I have CS3 and when I try to look at a page with a PDF in Safari, it want to start to load I assume a acrobat reader in the safari window.
Before I had CS3 it of course it just used preview in the Safari window.
I have tried to search for a PDF plug in Safari, and I cant find one on the drive. But if you check plugins in Safari from the help menu it does say using Acrobat.
What do I need to remove to stop it?

Hi
If it's greyed out, either the plug-in is missing, the preference file is possibly corrupt, or this is another example of how Adobe expresses its version of "creativity" on the Mac platform.
Tongue-in-cheek aside, I don't have CS3, so I can only speculate here. Other than the possible missing plug-in, or preference file corruption, I wonder if installing Adobe Reader frees up the greyed area via Reader's preference file?

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