I you use another browser than the AOL one, does it work then? That would be one of possible work-arounds. Another one: save it to your hard disk and open it from there.
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My computer is running windows xp and AOL 9.1 I also have the Acrobat reader 9.1.3 and it works great opening pdf files saved on my system.
When I go to a website and try to open a pdf file it says I do not have the correct version of Acrobat. I can not figure how to look at what plugins are active in AOL or fix it.

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