Question about opening pdf in Browser

Hello All.
Being a systemadministrator at a mental healthcare site, we use scanners for digitizing papers and importing this into our EPD.
Digitized papers are in PDF format, but despite the settings in Adobe reader (EDIT - PREFERENCES - INTERNET - Show PDF in Browser) the PDF will always be opened in Adobe reader, making it difficult to save them in EPD.
Is this a bug?
Running Windows 2008 R2 64 Bits (Terminal Server) with IE 8.0.7601.17514 and Adobe Reader 10.1.0
I don't see any Add-on called Adobe Reader in IE, I do see Adobe PDF link helper.
Could the absence of this add-on be the cause of my problem?
Thanks in Advance,
Jack

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