Preview as default PDF reader in Safari

I've posted to this question, but since my problem seems to be unique - thought it might deserve to be a new topic. I Have the Adobe/Acrobat-caused problem that caused Safari to quit using Preview to read PDF files. What seems to be unique though, is that Navigator and Firefox both work perfectly. It is only Safari that I haven't been able to restore to its previous operation in which it downloaded and automatically read PDF files. I've trashed everything relating to Acrobat, all appropriate plists, and changed the "Open With" to use Preview for all files; and still no luck...Safari will open and display the files, but will not download the file and let Preview open it.
Thanks for any suggestions - this really has me baffled.

Hi John
I've trashed everything relating to Acrobat, all appropriate plists, and changed the "Open With" to use Preview for all files; and still no luck...Safari will open and display the files, but will not download the file and let Preview open it.
After Safari opens the PDF, you ought to be able to right click (or control/click) on the browser screen to engage the Contextual Menu. There, "save as" etc. ought to appear. Have you tried this approach.
Contextual Menu, in part, looks like this:
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