Preview vs adobe acrobat - choosing default pdf viewer

when i download a pdf document and then click to open it, by default it opens using preview. how do i disable that and make adobe acrobat my default pdf viewer?
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9) iPod 30Gb color

Click once on a pdf document and do a Get-Info (command-I). In the resulting box you can choose what program you want to open the document with and with what program you wish to select to open all similar documents. Mac 101.

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