Files downloading as FLV instead of MP3

I hope that I am writing this in the correct place. My files are all downloading into flv format even though it is stored on the website as MP3, I can see the file change from MP3 to mp3.flv when I click download, and this is annoying especially when trying to download alot of mp3 files. I looked into the SWF and FLV player that is installed and there is no options for downloaded files to be changed. If anyone is familiar with this I would greatly appreciate the input.
Thanks
Brandon

Like the others say, it would really help if you provide a link to a file. It's also possible that your server isn't sending back the right Content-type header for the file. Here are example headers for a JPEG and a PNG:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:20:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
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Accept-Ranges: bytes
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Content-Type: image/jpeg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:21:51 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:09:53 GMT
ETag: "9c4180-45cb-18885a40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 17867
Content-Type: image/png
But it's impossible to know without a link. Or, you can open up the Terminal application and use this command (customize the URL for your site, obviously):
curl -I http://sitename/path/to/mp3.mp3
That will return just the headers so you can see what the server thinks it's pushing out...
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