Can't set flash player as default app to open SWF files on mac

This is the weirdest thing. Somehow the default application
to open SWF files on my mac has changed from the Flash Player to a
random Mac Projector file (i.e. presentation.app) that I published
from Flash for another project. So whenever I double click an SWF
it opens both the file I clicked and the other projector file. They
are in separate windows but if I close one of them they both close.
To try to fix this I went to my SWF hit cmd+i for the info,
changed the Open with application to the Flash Player and hit
change all. After I close the info box and try to open the file,
the same thing happens. It reverts back to opening with the random
projector. So I tried deleting the projector to see what would
happen and instead of opening in the regular flash player it went
and found another random projector file to be the default
application. WTF is going on?!

I wish I knew that has happened to me before as well. I never
found a solution. But eventually it seemed to go away on its
own.

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Basic Overview
I have this working fine at my home laptop, however I need this working for projects at school.
Whenever I want to open an SWF file at home, I simply double click it and open it in Adobe Flash Player (Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22) and I have no problems!
However, when I am at school I have to run SWF files within Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash Player IS installed, but the SWF files are not opened in that directly, they are opened within Internet Explorer.
At Home
If I right click an SWF file at home and select "Open With" and then "Choose Default Program...", Adobe Flash Player is already there under the name 'Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22', so I can simply select it as the default. (On my home laptop)
At School
At school if go to "Open With" and then "Choose Default Program...", Adobe Flash Player IS NOT there, only Internet Explorer and some other programs in the other programs box. (On my school laptop)
Question
How can I assign Adobe Flash Player as the default program for opening SWF files (on my school laptop)? If I select "Browse..." and go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\Macromed\Flash there is no file with a description of 'Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22', is the file for the actual program located somewhere else or have I just no looked properly in the folder?
I really need these files opening in Adobe Flash Player directly and not in Internet Explorer (I know you can set the view to 100% and have it sized correctly)
Thanks you to everyone who helps!
-Charlie! (Yes I know I don't need to write this in a forum)

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