PDF in Safari is blank

I have Acrobat reader and use it when viewing most pdf files. I do like to use the built in Safari option also, but for some reason recently I can not view any PDF files in Safari. It only comes up as a white screen, and the activity window says plug-in canceled. Any help would be appreciated. Hopefully the plug-in just needs to be re-installed. Thanks.

Mirko, thanks! I was having the same problem, and moving the AdobePDFViewer.plugin out of Library/Internet Plug-Ins stopped the white-window problem.
It does however now force PDFs to download instead of displaying them in Safari, and looking in that folder it appears that my "PDF Browser Plugin.plugin" is AWOL. Where'd it go? Hmm...
But that's the behavior I want 80% of the time anyway, so hey, I'm all set!
Pres

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