After installing Snow Leopard, how do you prevent FH files from booting Fireworks?

Even if I choose "always open as" Freehand they still open in Fireworks when I double click the file. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!

Do a Get Info (command I) on the file, and in the info window change the "Open with:" to FreeHand MX. That works on my iMac running 10.6.1, and it opens the file subsequently with FH. What doesn't work is the "Change All..." telling the finder to open all similar FH documents with FHMX. I guess we need to wait for a future OS update to fix that.

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