IE files downloading as .fdf instead of .pdf

I have a user where I work that is downloading insurance quotes from an IE browser. When downloading a home insurance quote, the file is attempting to download as a .fdf file instead of a .pdf. He doesn't have the same issue with the auto quotes. I have put in a ticket with the insurance web site, but wanted to see if I could get any ideas on the issue through here since these files should be opening in Acrobat 9 but can't due to the file type.
I know that .fdf files are used on a server application but this is a workstation. He's the only one in the department having the issue but it's not associated just with his profile on the PC. It's a Win7 64-bit OS. Any ideas?

Like the others say, it would really help if you provide a link to a file. It's also possible that your server isn't sending back the right Content-type header for the file. Here are example headers for a JPEG and a PNG:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:20:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:44:56 GMT
ETag: "ab8014-9f3-fef24200"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2547
Content-Type: image/jpeg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:21:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:09:53 GMT
ETag: "9c4180-45cb-18885a40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 17867
Content-Type: image/png
But it's impossible to know without a link. Or, you can open up the Terminal application and use this command (customize the URL for your site, obviously):
curl -I http://sitename/path/to/mp3.mp3
That will return just the headers so you can see what the server thinks it's pushing out...
charlie

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