Safari is not allowing Adobe Acrobat to control PDF viewing, PDFs are opening in Preview

After the latest update of Safari, in Snow Leopard, when I attempt to open a document as a PDF, the document is opening in Preview rather that Adobe Acrobat software.  This has never happend before.  I have been openning PDFs in Acrobat in every previous version of Apple Software and every version of Adobe Acrobat.  The support personnel for the web site where the PDF documents are created suggests that some plug-in control in Safari has been changed in the latest update. 

I thought it was clear but here it is again...
1. While in the finder select any pdf file by clicking on it.
2. In the File menu click the Get Info menu item or just click command + I ("eye").
3.  The finder info window for that selected pdf will be displayed.
4. You will see various sections of the info window separated by divider lines.  One will say Open With and have a popup menu below it.  From that popup select the app you want to open that pdf.
5. If you want all pdf's to be handled by the chosen app click the Change All... button below the popup memu.

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