Reader Upgrade hosed my file association

Adobe Professional 8 was on system with Reader 7, upgraded to reader 8.1.2 now I can't go back and associate my PDF files to Professional.
I get to choose from Distiller or Reader for file association. How do I get Professional to be my default app without re installing it?
Note: The standard re associate file doesn't work, when I point to the exe either the box is blank to check that I always want to open with this file or after clicking on the Acrobat.exe it does not populate in the programs list for the check box to save it to Acrobat.. instead it just re saves it to open with reader

Thanks so much for the speedy response!
Apologies, I left out key details.
pdf files on my machine now do not show as pdf icons (red adobe), but rather white bordered rectangles with mini icons inside (sorry, no idea what these are called) - see attached screen shot.
So when I click on them I get the message that windows doesnt recognise the file format and asks me to browse to an application to open with.
Does this help clarify issue?
BTW - to clarify; if i was to remove and redownload as you suggest, you are suggesting to download from the link below - correct?
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.3/en_US/AdbeRdr1013 _en_US.exehttp://

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