Q: How to restore Preview as the default PDF viewer in Safari

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro for Mac loaded and it took over the responsibility to display PDF documents in my browser but as much as I like Acrobat, it turns poor little Safari into a tortoise when viewing PDF's. Preview is 100x faster for simple PDF viewing and I'd like to restore that integration. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to get that back in Safari without uninstalling Acrobat? I don't have an issue with files on my hard drive, just Safari.
Thanks!
JimN

Thanks guys for the good thread. Excuse me for jumping in here but I am seeing a very similar issue but slightly different and wondering any one can lend a hand. I used to have Acrobat 8.x Professional Trail on my MBP but dropped it in the trash. Now Safari asks me to locate Acrobat each time I click a PDF link online. I cant find it of course, it simply isnt there. I want to go back to defaults.
Full disclosure: I have Acrobat 8.x Reader over in Windohs XP inside Parallels, and the OS might (might, not sure) see that as the app to open these, but of course that doesn't make any sense that it is going to be able to launch that inside the Safari window (dont want that even if it could, which I hope it cant).
Thanks.
Jason

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