Removing specific items from the "Open With" menu

I use VMWare Fusion and have an issue with the "Open With" context menu for documents that I can open with VMWare. Several images that have been deleted continue to show up in the context menu. How can I remove them?
I tried renaming the com.launcher.plist solution described in the "how to" section, but to no avail...

When you say you "tried renaming the com.launcher.plist", did you do what is described [here|http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24770?viewlocale=en_US] or something else?
Also have a look at [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1486735].
/p

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