How do I "sandbox" Adobe Reader on my Mac?

How do I "sandbox" Adobe Reader on my Mac? I hate Adobe Reader, but every once in a while I have PDF which requires it. Launching Adobe Reader 'infects' my Mac, by changing the file associations and causing Safari to render PDFs with Adobe instead of Preview.
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"You should be able to stop both of those actions by Reader. In the Reader preferences:

Internet / Uncheck [ ] Display PDF in browser using.

Then, in the Finder, get info on any PDF, select ""always open using"" and choose Preview. Check apply to all options. Next time you launch reader, it will ask you if you want to associate PDFs with reader. Check [X] Do not show again, and select ""no""

If you've tried this before and it didn't work, it might be worth it to dump the reader .plist file from ~/Library/Preferences"