PDF files wont open in browser after i uninstalled in control panel and re-installed.

this all stemed from trying to update flash player but right now it i need reader to work more urgently.
i got the flash player update request, clicked update but the update wouldnt complete so i STUPIDLY un installed it in the control panel. i didnt realise that i should have done this with an installer! it was a couple of week ago so im not sure if i only uninstalled flash player or if it was acrobat or reader aswell but i must of done something completely wrong. so when i came across the site where i need to open a form in a browser window that uses PDF it tells me that i dont have adobe reader installed. so i download and tried to install the lastest version of reader but got about 43% done and it told me the intallation timed out. this happened a couple of times. finally a couple of hours ago the installation managed to complete and i can open PDF files in it but it is still saying on the website that i dont have reader installed. this sites min req is version 5 or over.
please please help! im kinda lost!

Your suggestion did not work for me (WIN XP PRO with either I.E. 8 or Firefox 3.0.9).
I also disabled Acrobat add-in in Firefox without success (I even renamed nppdf32.dll in firefox\plugins)
In Internet Explorer I found 3 different plugins and disabled all of them without success, but now I have an indication error message; this is my translation from Italian: "Program Execution Protection stopped the program to protect the system from possible damage"
Also in internet explorer\plugins I renamed nppdf32.dll without any better result.
I tried also to rename the files acroiehelpershim.dll and acroiehelper.dll in programs\commonfiles\adobe\acrobat\activex but this was not possible because the files are in use (even after rebooting).

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