PDF won't preview in Safari 4.0.3

Just installed Snow Leopard. Intel Mac Pro. Using Safari 4.0.3. No preview of pdfs in Safari at all. I've removed the Adobe pdf viewer plug-in. And I get a black screen when I try to look at the pdf in browser view. I can download the file and read it on the desktop. But no luck with Safari. Yes. I tried the terminal command too, but no luck. Any ideas?
thanks

Okay, but what Terminal command did you attempt to use before? What happens in the new user account when you try Safari there? Do you have any Input Managers installed? Those are located in /Library/InputManagers and Home/Library/InputManagers; if you don't have either of those folders, then you have no Input Managers.
You can also try quitting Safari and going to Home/Library/Preferences and deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist file, then restarting Safari and resetting all your preferences to see if that resolves the problem. But don't do that until after you've had no luck with the things above.

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