Duplicates entries in "open with" menu AGAIN....

Hey guys
I have an issue with the Open With Crtl + click menu, i get duplicates of the programs that can be used to open the file, i konw that this problem was there since tiger and leopard, but now with SL i'm dissapointed of this issue AGAIN. I hope Apple its aware of this forum and resolves this problem with an update soon
If anyone knows a practical solution, please post it
Thanks and greetings from Mexico
Oscar

Hi again: OK, I am not really losing my mind, honest. Right clicking on a PDF file on the desktop and selecting "Open With" gave me not Duplicates, but Quadruplicates of each choice. I then selected the same PDF file and clicked "File" from the menu bar and then "Open With" and all was good, only one of each choice. I then go back to the "Right Click" method, all back to normal, one of each. Strange indeed.
Stedman

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The subject pretty much explains the problem.
I haven't made any major changes to my system, but I recently noticed that when I right click (2 button mouse) on something and go to the Open With menu, I now have duplicate entries.
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This seems to only be when I do this to images.
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That's handled by LaunchServices and sounds like a corrupt database. See http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html and
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OK, got you on the "Default".
Well, you tried LaunchServices and now, we've tried what usually works for duplicate items in "Save As" or "Open with" dialog. Why don't you create a new account, name it "test" and see how your "open with" works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
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com.apple.LaunchServices-014nnn.csstore
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Esaheiskanen, looking at the screenshot, I understand that it was removed properly.
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