Make Acrobat default, not Preview

Anyone know how to make Acrobat Reader the default application in opening PDFs? I know I can do it for individual documents by right-clicking and using "Open with." But I can't figure out how to make Acrobat Reader the default for all PDFs.
Preview is pretty clunky compared with Acrobat.

In Get Info, change Open With to something, then back to Acrobat Reader. That gives the option of clicking the button Change All to 'Use this application to open all documents like this'.
Now all PFDs will open in Reader - and you need version 8.1.

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