Apps showing up twice in suggested apps for open with

Brand new MacBook Pro with clean install of 10.8.2 (not restored from backup). Had this thing for two days and today is the first time that I'm trying to use it. Don't have a lot installed on it yet. In other words, we're about best case scenario for the computer...
But I'm seeing apps showing up doubled in the list of suggested apps when you right-click a file and "open with". See the screenshot, where both Photoshop CS6 and Safari are doubled up.
Ideas?

No... though I believe that the OS itself creates some form of restore partition*. Gotta think it's not looking at that though. And if it was, then every app would double, wouldn't they?
*I'm new to 10.8 and the whole "the computer doesn't come with OS disks, we have this fancy net boot thing (that totally doesn't work right)"

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