Opening an Online PDF

Since our IT Department installed Acrobat Pro 9.0 on my computer, I have not been able to click on a PDF link on a web site and open it. When we click on the file, we get the following error message:
"The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a Web Browser. Adobe Acrobat/Reader version 8 or 9 is required. Please exit and try again."
Since I'm using Acrobat 9, the error message is, well, erroneous. How do I solve the problem? The work around they came up with was to install Foxit Reader. Since I updated Acrobat 9 earlier today, I'm back to not being able to read online PDFs (which means that I have to reassociate Foxit with the files, unless someone here can tell me how to get Acrobat Pro to work.)

Do you also have Reader on the machine? If so that might be the problem. If not, then do you have Acrobat set to view in the browser?

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