Enabling the ability to uncheck QT file associations in Default Programs

I have Windows 7 here, and it comes with this nice little utility that lets you set the default programs for various file types (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Default Programs\Set Program Associations). When I select Quicktime, there are various boxes that I can check, but there are also various boxes that are pre-checked. I would like to uncheck them, but they are greyed out. How can I uncheck them?
I hope Apple engineers understand the absurdity of having a specific tool for setting file type associations, and them making that tool unable to set file type associations. It sort of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
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File associations are a mess right now. Many programs (Opera included) handle them their own way. There's a project underway to handle associations in a standard way (see MIME actions, shared MIME info, desktop entries, all at freedesktop.org), but not all software uses it; KDE is a notable holdout (3 at least, not sure about 4).
Note that that first spec link, MIME actions, is currently "in the requirements-gathering / early-planning stages." That means there is no spec for that. As I said, a mess.
Most likely, Opera and Thunderbird detected you were running KDE and special-cased their association-finder to ask KDE instead. Now that you aren't, they're falling back to their normal behavior: use the first .desktop file to claim the MIME type. As I recall, both applications offer ways to specify associations in their preferences; you might just want to stick to that for now. Or use a desktop environment.
The kernel-level MIME support is designed to allow execution of strange files using interpreters. For example, you could directly execute Windows applications (as in "./notepad.exe") by setting the kernel to "interpret" application/exe files using wine. No applications use it for opening files.

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