epiphany and galeon cannot find acroread ("testing")

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

Neither epiphany nor galeon can find "adobe reader"; I installed
acroread in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread with a symlink in
/usr/local/bin .

I found a file ~/.galeon , but no corresponding file for epiphany.  

For both galeon and epiphany, the help file displays as a page of raw
XML.

desktop:  gnome
system:   Debian testing
machine:  i386

RLH