How to repair File Type Associations

Hi, I have a problem with being unable to mount *.bin files by double clicking them.
They seem to be associated with VLC at the moment, and I would like to know how to return it so that these *.bin files are automatically mounted/opened when downloaded.
Which application should I choose to associate *.bin files with so I can do this?
Is there a different way of taking care of this problem?
Additionally, I have removed VLC from my computer for this reason, and is there any other thing I should have done besides deleting the VLC folder I had made to contain that application? (e.g. an uninstall)
I'm a new Mac user so I need a little help

Hi, lunarist.
I tested your link using two browsers: OmniWeb and Safari.
1. With OmniWeb, it downloaded the .bin, invoked my copy of StuffIt Deluxe, scanned it with Norton AntiVirus, decompressed the .bin and mounted the disk image included therein. My StuffIt preferences are set to scan files with NAV before decompressing them. OmniWeb "knows" to use StuffIt Deluxe to expand the .bin because of the file's MIME type and, as a result of having StuffIt Deluxe installed on my Mac, Launch Services has associated StuffIt Deluxe with files of this type.
Launch Services is the underlying mechanism in Mac OS X that associates documents with applications and vice-versa.
2. With Safari, the bin was downloaded and decompressed. I was warned the disk image contained a program, and when I accepted that it should be mounted, it was.
What you're seeing here is that Safari contains the code necessary to decompress the .bin and will do so if "Open Safe Files" is specified in Safari > Preferences > General. That Safari can perform this is common with many Mac-based Internet applications, e.g. browsers, FTP clients, even some mail clients. See section [2.4] of the comp.sys.mac.com FAQ where it states:"almost all modern Macintosh telecommunications and Internet programs have the capability of converting and unconverting MacBinary files for you."However, as previously noted in other posts, you don't have an application installed that will permit you to decompress these files by simply double-clicking them. For that, you need something like StuffIt Expander, a free version of which can be found here. Tiger, unlike prior versions of Mac OS X, does not include Stuffit Expander: see "Mac OS X 10.4: Where is StuffIt Expander?"
So, as others have advised, install the free version of StuffIt Expander in order to decompress .bin files by double-clicking them.
They're presently associated with VLC as VLC must claim .bin as a file extension or the MIME type "application/x-macbinary" as one it can open, hence Launch Services has decided that, based on the apps you have installed, that VLC is the only app that claims this file type.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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