Duplicate Items in Open With Menu

Whenever I right / command click to get the 'open with' dialog the list has duplicates of most applications in the list. This happened after I upgraded to Leopard. Any ideas how to fix it?

There are several possible reasons this happens.
One is that you have different versions of the apps on your drive, or that you have other drives mounted, each with a copy of the apps. Each instance you see of an app is actually a different one, & thus you have a choice of which one to launch.
Another is that the launch services database is corrupted & needs to be rebuilt. Several third party utilities make this easy to do without resorting to the command line. If you use one for this purpose, make sure it has been updated for Leopard compatibility. Two such utilities are Cocktail (shareware) & Onyx (freeware).

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