EPS Files Do Not With Correct Parent Application

I already posted this question in the Install & Setup Forum on April 3. But no response since then. I also posted this question on the Adobe Forum. So far no response there either.
I am hoping someone in this Using Mac OS X Tiger forum might be able to shed some light on the problem.
I am running Adobe Creative Suite 2 under Mac OS 10.4.6.
Lately, I have been unable to open any EPS files under the correct Adobe parent application.
It started out with when I double-clicked on any Illustrator EPS file, it launches Adobe Photoshop.
I ran the usual Mac OS X maintenance (Repair Permissions, purged caches and specific preference files, ran crons, etc.). No change,
Next, I did a "Get Info" on a Illustrator EPS file, select "Open with" Illustrator and did a "Change All..."
Now Illustrator EPS files will open under Illustrator. But now when I double click on any Photoshop EPS file it launches Illustrator.
Someone suggested modifying the preferences in the Adobe Bridge application. No change.
I then deleted the Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop folder with any associated files and re-installed just those application. Still no change.
I would rather not do the control-click option every time I need to open an EPS under the correct application.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
Power Mac G5 / 2GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Kevin wrote: "In Cocktail they have a setting that just says Rebuild Launch Services database. I should write them and find out exactly what that does."It's described in Cocktail Help: in Cocktail, select Help > Cocktail Help > System. Read under Misc.
What's unclear from the description therein is if Cocktail deletes both the caches and the user's preference, just the caches, or just the user's preference.
I don't know what the script does that Francine cited: I've never looked at it.
I recommend the manual approach in my FAQ as it is very conservative, especially if you have defined a large number of user-specfied bindings, i.e. where you've specified certain documents or document types should open in a given application, known as a binding. Those are saved in the preference and can take a good bit of time to recreate if you've defined many of your own bindings.
Trashing the appropriate cache files, per my FAQ, is usually sufficient, but if that doesn't work, then one must nuke the caches and preference. Hence the approach in my FAQ.
Good luck!
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coldfusion server.
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tab, I can see a
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open the
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