File Association - Opening in wrong program

Hi,
I have a program file (Total Training for Photoshop CS Launchpad) which for some reason is opening up in Photoshop - I guess it's associated with it. but of course photoshop doesn't recognize the file...
The file doesn't have an extension but in finder is listed as a Unix Executable file....
Is there anyway I can get it to run properly?
Thanks in advance, Chaim

Welcome to discussions, Brandon. It has been a while since I worked with OS 10.2, but one thing you can try is to highlight the applications in question and then in the menu bar, click on "File" then click on "get info" In that drop down panel, you may see and option that says "Open with" where you can choose an alternative application to open.
M.

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00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellEx\PropertySheetHandlers\Offline Files]
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"ItemName"="@shell32.dll,-30396"
"MenuText"="@shell32.dll,-30317"
"NonLFNFileSpec"="@shell32.dll,-30319"
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"AllDrives"=""
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"NoExtension"=""
==================
Once done, right-click the REG file and choose Merge. Alternately, you can open the Registry Editor and then using the
Import option from the File menu, to merge the REG file contents.
Let me know if you need any further help.
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