Bloated "OPEN WITH" Menu -- Fix?

Slowly my "OPEN WITH" menu as turned into a overfilled disaster as *old versions* of apps, and sometimes even apps that are irrelevant to the file type.
Screenshot
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/48/picture3pn2.gif
How do I remove programs from the "Open With" menu?
Mitch

Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder. Paste the following command line in its entirety immediately after the command line prompt, then press return:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/L aunchServices.framework/Versions/Current/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain system -domain local -domain user
When the prompt returns quit Terminal.

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