Contextual menus - Stuffit

Just getting my feet wet with Snow Leopard, and I started searching around this forum when my Stuffit contextual menu wasn't working. I thought it might be because I'm using an older version of Stuffit, but now I know that Apple has removed the ability of 3rd party developers to access the contextual menu.
I use the right-click function constantly for choosing what kind of Stuffit file I want to create (I create sitx and zip files almost every day depending on what the purpose of the compression is.) Any thoughts about an easy work around for this?
(And if anybody cares to enlighten me, any thoughts about why Apple would want to restrict 3rd party developers from using the contextual menu?)
Thanks!

Thanks for all the responses, folks!
To answer WBW's first question: No, I haven't upgraded to the newest version of Stuffit Deluxe . . .in fact, I've been using version 9 up until now. I saw that the upgrade would have only been $30, but I didn't want to plunk down that money if I had a different issue that needed to be resolved.
I found think link that seemed to confirm that 3rd parties have been shut out of the contextual menus in Snow Leopard:
Click here
<link shortened by host>
(which is what Kurt Lang mentioned . . .I'd never heard of Smith Micro before . . .I just ended up there while trying to find answers through Google).
In addition, I found this link in the Apple Discussions which discusses the issue of contextual menus from a guy that was trying to get rid of Toast from the menu: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10938613&#10938613
I'd forgotten about the c clamp menu Donald Palmer mentioned because I'd been accessing Stuffit through the contextual menu for years.
I love Apple products, but sometimes I really don't get it with changes like this . . .arghhhhhh!

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