Opening PDF documents in safari

When I try to open/download a pdf document, I gat a lego brick with a question mark on it. If I want to see the file I have to download it and view separately. This only happens on Safari for Windows, on al other browsers, including Safari for Mac OS X pdf files open without difficulty. I've tried all the settings/preferences, but must be missing something. Anyone encountered/overcome this?

Do you have adobe Reader installed?

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