Elements not always opening and sometimes will not save a file

I am fairly new to Photoshop having only previously owned PSE 10.  When i upgraded to 11, i was seriously impressed but now i have the most annoying problem.  Usually i can open a raw file sucessfully the first time and edit/process it with no problems but if i then try to open a second one, nothing happens.  If i open elements first and then open the file it will work but then, when it comes time to save the file, nothing happens.  there are no error messages, nothing  freezes, nothingn happens at all!
The only thing that i  can think of is that i did a silly thing!  When i was looking in the folder with all my files, i saw the new .xmp file that is added after processing a raw file.  For some unknown reason, i thought that it would be a good idea to change the "opens with" setting for it.  I now do not know how to remove this setting or what to change it back to.  At the moment it is set to notepad.  I am not sure if this is relevant as i can usually open the first photo successfully and everything works.  It does, however, require a complete restart if i want to work on another picture.

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