Safari 4 for Windows & Adobe PDF files?

Hi all,
Running Safari 4, and love the browser with the exception that any time it tries to open a PDF file within the browser it crashes. Has been this way with acrobat 9.0 and also 9.1 Any suggestions/fixes, or at least workarounds to that it will launch the file in the application instead of crashing the browser?
Thanks,
Matt

My wife is running Safari 4.0.3 on Windows XP. I have installed Adobe Acrobat Professional and all of its Adobe updates. Adobe preferences are set to open PDFs in the browser, and connection is set to LAN. Safari is set as the default browser. When I try to open a link to a pdf document, Safari crashes with the following error:
Acrobat Plug-In
The Adobe Acrobat/Reader that is running can not be used to view PDF files in a web browser. Please exit Adobe Acrobat/Reader and exit your web browser & try again.
Windows throws up a dialog saying that it had to close Safari, through its Data Execution Protection service. So, I went to the DEP settings, and told it not to protect memory in Safari. Didn't help.
This did not happen with Acrobat Reader 8.x. Problem started with Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.x. Suggestions?

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