10.6. - file information window - 'open with' (program) can't be adjusted?

Hello,
just installed Snow Leopard (German version) , nice overall!
... but I am missing a handy feature. Maybe it has been moved somewhere else?
Usually when you click Cmd-I at a file to display it's information window you can adjust with which program that (and optional) other files of that kind should be opened.
I can only see the set program, but not where I can change it...
Maybe somebody has a hint for me?
thanks,bye
beatrice

today, after I had switched off my Mac over night and started it this morning, the 'Open with' dialog offered the pulldown-menu to choose a program as expected (and not only showed one program icon as it did yesterday... (but why didn't it after the installation yesterday/restart?)

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