Finally! After feeling a bit like a second-class citizen for so long since running a Solaris (and now OpenSolaris) x86 desktop, I can now run Adobe Reader (formerly known as "Acrobat Reader") on my system. While evince certainly was adequate for reading through PDF files, it did not handle searches very well, and I could not copy text from one section without it grabbing text from an adjoining section on the same page. I was not prepared to run VirtualBox just to use Adobe Reader.
So now I was able to download and install from Reader 9.1 from http://get.adobe.com/reader/. It knew my OS, and presented the download button. I am very happy to relegate evince to a secondary app as Adobe Reader (I know, I keep wanting to call it Acrobat too) takes over as my main PDF reading tool.