Switches to Acrobat Reader 5 instead of '7'...

I have the Classic OS 9 also for older applications-it has the Acrobat Reader 5 application installed; the OS X 4.8 Tiger is set up with Acrobat 7...HOWEVER...for some reason when Acrobat engages it is using ONLY the '5' and not the '7' version(Classic is turned off)....I used the Reader 5 on a 9 application some time ago, but since then it only reads in '5'' when in regular OS X mode...?? How do I get it back to the '7' version ??

Open a Finder window containing a .pdf file, do Get Info on the .pdf, in the Get Info window, expand the 'open with' triangle, select 'other' navigate to and select Reader 7, click on the 'open all using' button.
(The terminology may be a little off since I'm typing that from memory on the wrong computer at the moment, but you should have no problem figuring it out once you know where to look.)

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