I want Preview in Safari, Not Acrobat

Ever since I installed Acrobat 7, whenever I open a PDF in Safari - it takes forever to open the document in Safari in an imbedded Acrobat window. I want to change this back to Preview - it's much faster.
I tried moving the AdobePDFviewer plug in and unchecked the box as the default browser in Acrobat preferences. And got info on a PDF document and checked all for Preview. And reset Safari after all this.
Please help - it's driving me crazy.

Moving the plugin out from 'HD/Library/Internet Plug-ins/' should have disabled it altogether. Did you restart Safari after moving the plugin?
Ever since I installed Acrobat 7, whenever I open a PDF in Safari - it takes forever to open the document in Safari in an imbedded Acrobat window. I want to change this back to Preview - it's much faster.
The reason why Adobe takes ages to load is because of the various plugins which are loaded at start-up. You can reduce the time it requires by following the instructions in this article and associated comments. It was written with Adobe Reader 6 in mind, but is equally applicable to version 7.
MacOSXHints: Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
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