Safari pdf handling - Preview?

Is it possible to set Safari to use a Preview plug-in to read pdf files? I can find the list of installed plug-ins (Help: Installed Plug-ins) but I can't see any way to edit them. I don't care if Preview opens the files within Safari, or if Preview just starts up and displays the pdf files in its own window.
At the moment, when I click a pdf file link within Safari, Safari doesn't know what to do because it can't find Adobe Acrobat Reader. (I recently un-installed Adobe Acrobat Reader because I got tired of Adobe's shenanigans.)
Thanks!

My copy of Safari is behaving the same way following the installation of Adobe CS3...
...before the CS3 install I could click on PDFs within Safari and they would open with Preview. Now when I click on a PDF within Safari it won't open and I am asked to locate the PDF viewer application (I forget the exact language).
I am unable to choose preview by browsing through the dialog box so I'm stuck without a PDF viewer.
FWIW, there are no adobe plugins in my Library\Internet Plugins Folder
and
Preview opens PDFs automatically from within the finder, just not from within Safari.
-please help

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