Change associated program to .doc files

After I changed to Mountatin Lion I have got a new problem.
I use show info and tries to associate all .do files with OpenOffice. But it is not possible. Every time I dio and change to OpenOffice the system still change it back to the previwe program. I can change it to texteditor (the apple porgram) but not to OpenOffice. Why is it so??
/Per

Ok I understand. Its not sufficient with just OpenOffice. But when I try to do that I dont get that choice. I mean I dont get the choice OpenOffice writer only the choice OpenOffice.org.
Do I have to install OpenOffice in some special way or do I have to update OpenOffice. I am using 3.3. Haven found any never version at least not for swedish.

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first I've installed open office. A few month later I installed micorsoft office. After that I converted all office files. Everything was working fine. Now my mac forgot to open .doc files with ms word, he chooses oo word. I do'nt have these problems with .xls files.
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