Doesn't open with application I want

I want to open all .smi files with Text Wrangler. The computer thinks the .smi files are disk image files whereas they are just subtitle files similar to srt files. However, when I choose GetInfo and select Text Wrangler and choose "Change all files to open with this type", I get a question box asking me whether I want to open all files with Disk Image. If I choose "Yes", then I get Disk Image as the default application, and if I choose "Cancel", I still get Disk Image.
In other words, it doesn't let me choose Text Wrangler to open all files of this type (.smi).
What should I do?

I fixed this problem. What I did was I clicked to open a file. I chose "other" for the application I wanted the file to open with. Then after that a dialog box opened called "Choose Application". In this window, I chose "All Applications" for "always open with".
Then I chose Text Wrangler from the Applications list. Then I clicked "Open".
After that I right-clicked an .smi file from a Finder window and chose "Get Info" for that file. After that, Text Wrangler came up as the first choice in the list, not Disk Image, and I was able to select Text Wrangler as the default application that opens all files of that type (.smi).
So the trick was to change the "enable" part in the "Choose Application" dialog box (obtained by choosing "other" when selecting the application to open the file with) and changing "Recommended Applications" to "All applications".
After that, everything works fine and I can change the default application using Get Info.

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