Preview not opening PDF's in Safari

I had a trial version of Adobe Acrobat and since it's expired and I've removed it Preview won't open PDF's that I find in Safari like it used to, instead I get a dialogue box asking to find the Acrobat plugin (I've deleted it, oops).
I have Preview as my default PDF reader (command and 'I' when a PDF is selected confirms this) but can't fathom out why it won't open PDF's direct from the net.
It's getting to be a pain saving each PDF and opening it off the desktop so any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Oops!! In my last post I used "dashboard" instead of "Dock". Sorry about that. I am new to the Mac. Here is my last post with the appropriate terminology.
"This worked for me as well. The procedure I had to do to make it finally work after I deleted the Adobe plugin from "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins" (I didn't have the file in my account folder), was to quit Safari on the "DOCK" (not just closing the browser window - for us former Windows users). Then I had to empty the trash. When I had initially moved the plug-in to the trash and had not actually quit Safari from the "DOCK", Safari was still accessing the plug-in.
Once I quite the program, emptied the trash, and restarted Safari, though, I was back in business!!!!"

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