Why aren't my PDF icons red?

My desktop icons for Adobe PDF files look like TextEdit icons with a binding up one side -- very boring and difficult to tell apart from many similar looking icons on my desktop. I was thinking that this is the best I can get with Leopard but I see that this unhappy Stacks user - http://www.davidillig.com/whatamess.shtml - has the regular red PDF icons on his desktop so I'm wondering why I don't.
When I do a Get Info on one of my boring PDF icons, the icon at the top of the Get Info window is the red icon that I want -- so why is it not showing on the desktop? Do I need to install Adobe Reader -- I currently only have Acrobat Pro installed and all PDF files are set to open in Pro (which is how I want it since Reader is too limited for my needs)? Hard to imagine that Pro would give me different file icons though...
Simon

It's showing an icon preview of the document. I imagine it is boring looking because the file itself contains boring content. You can turn off icon preview with "Show View Options."

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