Trouble opening PDFs in Safari

Hello,
Whenever I need to look at a PDF in Safari, I get the following message: "Before viewing PDF documents in this browser you must launch Adobe Reader and accept the End User License Agreement then quit and relaunch the browser." I actually downloaded the newest version of Adobe Reader (11.0.7 I believe) a few weeks ago to try and help out a client, but immediately deleted/uninstalled the program once I found an answer for the client as I have no need for Adobe Reader since I have Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. I've had no issues prior to installing Adobe Reader. It seems like Safari thinks that Adobe Reader is my default PDF reader even though I don't have it anymore. I've tried looking in Safari's preferences in the Security tab under Internet plug-ins, and manage websites. I found that Safari is indeed using Adobe Reader even though I don't have it, but cannot find how to either delete that from Safari or replace it with Acrobat Pro. Anyone know how to fix this issue? I'm sure I can probably just redownload Adobe Reader, but I'd rather not.
Thank you in advance!
Josh

First if you installed Reader then it will install the Adobe PDF viewer plug-in in this location:
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/
If you have neither Adobe Reader nor Adobe Acrobat installed any longer then follow these steps:
1. Go to the Go>Go to Folder menu (Command+Shift+G)
2. Paste in the the path: /Library/Internet Plug-ins/
3. Click the Go button
4. Select the file "AdobePDFViewer.plugin"
5. Control click and select Move to Trash
6. Authenticate with your Administrator password
7. Select the file "AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin"
8. Control click and select Move to Trash
9. Authenticate with your Administrator password
10. Close the window
You should now be ready to go.

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