Opening Adobe Acrobat PDF files

I can not get them to load in Safari anymore if I click something and it is an adobe acrobat file. Sometimes, I can then save them to downloads and open them, but sometimes I can't get them to save or open at all. I have Acrobat 7 and 8. I used to be able to until about a month ago.
Is there something I can do so I can open them again?
Thanks much!

Inside Library, Internet Plug-Ins folder there is a plug-in that does the job
/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/AdobePDFviewer.plugin
If it's not there the simplest way is to enable it from the program preferences in internet section.
Could also be that the plug-in is broken. Move it to the trash and re enable it from the Acrobat preferences.

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