Unable to print PDF Files in Safari 5.1

Hi,
1) Running Snow Leopard v10.6.8. Downloaded Safari v5.1. I now cannot print or save pdf files within Safari. I can view them okay, but the error message I get when trying to save a pdf file (which is a program document for a photo expo after it has loaded okay into Safari) is:
The document “BIFB broadsheet program.pdf” could not be exported as “BIFB broadsheet program.pdf”.
This is the same error message regardless of the pdf file downloaded into Safari (apart from the file name of course).
Also, trying to print any downloaded pdf results in a blank page full of black (rather than white). ie, I cannot print anything either.
2) Using Firefox v5.0.1, everything worked fine, ie. I can print and save pdf files without a problem.
3) Adobe reader is loaded on my system but I don't use it. I removed a plug-in for Safari called 'AdobePDFViewer.plugin' but it made no difference.
Any ideas?
I am a tad loathe to update to Lion at the moment and will wait for the next dot update.
regards
Steve

I visited a "genius" in the Apple Store, Leicester, this morning. After some playing around he seems to have sorted it. Apparently - now they tell me! - you don't need Adobe Reader on Macs as the Mac has its own pdf reader built-in. Safari 5.1 is now clashing with Reader and the best approach is to remove Reader - and the relevent preference files. I took one of my MBPs into the store and am just checking it out to see if everything is now ok. I'm now planning to make the changes on my other machine and will report back. (The genius said that my best approach was to bring in the second MBP but I'm not very convenient to Leicester so I'm going to give it whirl myself.)
Wish me luck.
But why did we load Reader in the first place? Are we that unusual in the Mac community? Surely, others must have done the same and are having the same problem with Safari 5.1???

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