Want Preview -- but PDFs keeping launching in Acrobat Pro 8

How do I make sure that whenever I launch a PDF -- whether by opening a PDF on my hard drive or when downloading a PDF in Safari or Firefox -- that it always launches Preview and NEVER launches Acrobat Pro 8. I've selected "Get Info" on a PDF file on my desktop, told it to Open with Preview and to "Use this Application to open all documents like this" but after doing so, other PDFs on my hard drive still open with Acrobat Pro. And I can't find anything in Safari's preferences to tell it to ignore Acrobat and use Preview. I will need to continue to use Acrobat Pro once in a while to edit PDFs, etc., but for everyday viewing of PDF files, Acrobat is slow, cluttered, and a real pain compared to Preview. (I'll also need to make sure that when I download an upgrade to Acrobat Pro, which I'll need to do eventually, that the Adobe app doesn't hi-jack things again.)

I think there are subtle differences in pdf versions, but the extension is the same.
So for the one you have changed, does it stay changed to Preview?
If there is a group of them made by Acrobat Pro, select the group and Command + i and after selecting Open with Preview, and Change All, that may make them stick with Preview.

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