Can you change "Open With" List TITLES?

When I right-click on a photo or something, then go down to "Open With" to choose which app to open it with, CS4 has made an obscenely long title somehow taking up the whole desktop. It looks like nonsense after it says CS4. All I need it to say at the most is Adobe CS4, or just be like CS2.
Anyone know how to change this mess?
Thanks!

Yay! I fixed it!
This is what I did: I went into Finder>Apps> Adobe CS4 (folder)> Right-Click on CS4.app> Show Package Contents> Contents> Open info.plist
Then 6-lines down it stated what was in the "open with" string, so I removed it, restarted, and Voilá!
Nice and clean.

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I have a file extension for my source files which is PRG. So I have main.prg, test.prg, etc..
Now, how can I change the default application that opens all files with that extension? I already tried "Open With" -> "Other.." -> Selct a application, click the "Always open with" checkbox, but finder still keeps opening my PRG files with the standard application..
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I am a newbie to the Macworld and I would like to know how I could remove some of the items appearing from the "open with" menu.
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This may be a question for Apple because it is a uniquely Apple Finder problem.
Or maybe some clever 3rd party Apple developer will take this on - because this is an Apple Finder problem (hint).
Is there a way to shorten the "Open With" list that appears when I right-click on a file?
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1- I'm seeing multiple versions of the same app on the list, like Photoshop CS5, Photoshop CS5.1, Photoshop CS 5.5. I can't think of any reason why I would ever want to use an older version of Photoshop. And it's not only Photoshop or even Adobe products.
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