All my Nikon .xmp files are tagged as Final Cut Pro files!

Using Aperture, all the .xmp files are incorrectly tagged by Snow Leopard as FCP files. Because I run FCP on this machine too, I can't see how to change this to whatever files they should be tagged as (because my FCP project files will be change by that same action).
Any suggestions? TIA, KL

Clem wrote:
It shouldn't matter if the OS is misassociating those files. You aren't going to be opening them in an app by double-clicking them right? Are you having any actually problems in usage?
No, no problems in use—but I would like to know why this is happening. Before I installed Aperture, my .xmp files were not tagged with a particular program; they simply were the metadata files.
The problem is that when I access the NEF files that are associated with the metadata files (via Preview, for example), FCP opens with its latest project. I would prefer if the metadata files were recognised as just that, and not have FCP open in the background. Any suggestions? TIA

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