Preview no longer opening images or pdfs. Can anyone help?

I recently got a Wacom Bamboo Fun and while the pad works great I installed some of the accompanying software chief among them Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. This software not only failed to open anything itself it kept asking for a password to open PDFs, as none of the documentation with the software showed me how to do this I decided to uninstall the software.
Shortly afterwards my Preview application no longer recognized any image files of any sort nor any PDFs. As you can imagine I am highly frustrated and a little upset about this as it has now robbed me of image viewing abilities with the very handy Preview App.
Does anyone know how to restore it? I have tried to set Preview to read these files again but the program is grayed out when I attempt to do this.
I suppose I can try to reinstall the OS but that is a lot of hassle for just one application. Nonetheless, I am asking in hopes someone has a simpler suggestion.
Thank you in advance for any help.

Find a .pdf file, select it then Get Info (or command+i)
In the window that opens go to 'Open with' then look for Preview in the drop down selector, if it's not there then select 'Other' and browse for Preview (in the Applications folder) - if it's greyed out then change the 'Enable' setting to 'All Applications' not 'Recommended' and check 'always open with'.
Then click Change All before you close the window so it will apply this setting to all PDFs from now on.

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