They do however just open up in the Acrobat Reader just fine...
Adobe never fixed the IE issue.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/services/ill/troubleshoot.html is just one of many sites noting this unresolved issue.
Bob
I cannot view PDF files in Firefox.
WinXP Pro
Firefox 0.9.3
Adobe Reader 6.0.2

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