Default programme for mail attachments

Since installing Snow Leopard, my Mail programme defaults to Numbers or Pages when opening attachments. How do I change the default back to Microsoft Word or Excel?

With such files, saved anywhere in your user folder, Control-click on one of each type, choose Get Info, and in the resulting window choose the program to use, and then further choose the selection to open all such files with that application. Do this once for a Word doc and once for an Excel file.
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