Safari 5 can't open PDFs???

In Safari 5 I have been getting one of the most bizarre error messages I have ever seen. When trying to open a web page that is a pdf, it tells me:
"Safari can’t open “http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/acr6pdfxfaq.pdf” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “http:”. "
They open fine in other browsers. What is going on here???!!!

This just happened to me, too on someone elses computer. Instead of checking the "enable plug-ins" box in the security tab, instead I look in
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and found the AdobePDFViewer.plugin file. If you don't need features specific to Adobe Acrobat, you can use the OS X PDF subsystem for viewing and working with PDFs (e.g. Preview and the Safari PDF viewer). The built-in OS X PDF system will work whether this 'enable plug-ins' box is checked or not.
To solve the problem I dragged the "AdobePDFViewer.plugin file out of the plugins folder (and on to the desktop for example) and restarted Safari. Now PDFs are fine.
Note that if you leave the 'enable plug-ins' unchecked then flash etc won't work either.

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