Inconsistent error opening PDF files

Hi all,
Hope someone have seen this issues before. At our company, we have multiple computers running Windows 7 and Windows XP. All the computers have Adobe Acrobat reader 10 & 11.
When we go to a specific websites and click on a pdf file to open, we get this error message below:
"There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired"
When we click on the pdf files and choose to view or download to it to our desktop, we at times will get this error message several times and then it will finally work. Some pdf files will just open and we can view it immediately and some pdf files will give this error message several times before it work.
This is happening to all the computers (Windows XP and Windows 7). We have try to reinstall Adobe reader 10 and 11 on some of the computers, did full windows update, cleared out cookies/cache on browser, tried different browser (chrome and IE8 and 9). Nothing seems to resolved this inconsistency.
nick

I change the setting in IE and Chrome to have PDF files open in the native applicaiton instead of the browser, but it still have issues.
We have several locations, and our ShadyGrove and Germantown have the issues, while the Washington does not. Everyone at the Washington area when opening the pdf files from the specific website does not get the error message.
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