Applications downloaded from internet

Just upgraded to 10.5 from 10.4. I'm now getting an new (to me) message that pops up when I try to run an application I've downloaded. Says something like "Application downloaded from the internet, do you still want to run". I'm looking for a way to "turn off" that message. Some apps do not show the message after I've run the app the first time. Others continue to show the message each time I run the app. Can someone point me to the place I can turn off this message?
Thx.

Speaking as someone who has been a Windows network admin for 20 years, the biggest effect these kinds of "you're about to do sothing that might occasionally be stupid, but is almost always normal" dialogs is to train people to answer warning dialogs in the affirmative.
And it's really hard to un-train them.
I've had several people come to me and as "Peter, it asked me 'do you want to install a virus on your computer' (or something equally scary) and I clicked 'install' before I noticed what it was saying, and now my computer's acting funny".
When Apple added "open safe files" to Safari I groaned. I knew some stupid thing like this was coming up.
The most fun I've had with this was when a screen saver tried to run a program, and LaunchServices came up with the stupid warning, AND I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT WAS UNDER THE SCREEN SAVER, AND THE SCREEN SAVER WAS WAITING FOR IT. I mean, Whisky Tango Foxtrot, Apple...

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