Duplicate items in "open with" dialogue

Hi -
Since upgrading to Tiger (currently 10.4.5), I've noticed that if I right-click on a pdf or image file and choose "open with", programs are listed twice. Where does this list come from and are there aliases somewhere that I can delete? Obviously this is not crucial to how things are operating, but an annoyance nonetheless. Thanks in advance.
Darth

Hi Darth,
Navigate to /library/caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore. You may have more than one with different negative numbers. Delete all of these.
Then navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist and delete this file also.
Then log out and back in. Or restart. Let us know.
EDIT:For AxL
milliseconds...) Perhaps even nanos this time
-mj
[email protected]

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