.pdf files appear as a gray screen

.pdf files appear as a gray screen when downloading from a website link since upgrading to Snow Leopard. They (pdf files) are fine when received and opened from an email sent to us.  Any ideas on how to fix it? 

First I Reset Safari, then close Safari then navigate to:
Home/Library/Preferences and look for and then remove
com.apple.Safari.plist
com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
Also:
Home/Library/Safari/ folder and remove the following two files:
history.plist
lastsession.plist
And
Go to Home/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/ and remove the contents of that folder.
(These are just  webhistory files and are not required for Safari to run. However, similar to preference files, problems can arise if they have become corrupt.)
Locate the cookies.plist file that's located in the Home/Library/Cookies/ folder and remove it.
They will all be recreated next time you launch Safari.

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