Cannot switch preferred application to open pages document

When I double click a .pages document the application Preview opens and tries to open the document. If I do a Command+I or Get Info I see that the Preview application is selected to open the document. If I then click the dropdown menu to see what apps will open it I see Pages (default). Preview is not even listed. If I select Pages and click the Change All… button it switches back to Preview. It seems there is a preference file that is not functioning properly or something within the OS. How do I fix this?

Have you done any maintenance of the computer lately? You can use the Disc Utility or the free Onyx from _http://www.titanium.free.fr/_
Delete the file Jerrold mentioned and restart the computer. Don't start Pages or Preview before you have restarted the computer again.

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