How to change "Open With" Settings

At work I use a PowerMac to do artwork and such, but I haven't had it long. Before then I had a crappy PC (that thankfully died, so I could convince my boss to get me a PowerMac XD). The boss for a while used CorelDRAW, and a lot of old files are in this format on an external hard drive. Unfortunately for Mac users the file extension is .cdr which is also a disc image format. I want to change the "Open With" settings on all of these files, but I want to be able to double-click on cdr disc images and mount them. Is there some way to do this, someway to get OS X to know that those files aren't disc images but CorelDRAW documents? If it makes it any easier (dunno if it would matter) all of the CorelDRAW documents will always be stored on the external hard drive.

I have about 4 or 5 of them on my desktop right now. OS X by default can mount them, and by default has the cdr extension labeled as a disc image. They're typically used by Toast to clone CDs directly without changing their file structure in any way, especially useful for bootable discs. There's some Windows and UNIX programs that can use them as well.
I've already made the CorelDRAW files easily searchable through Spotlight by inserting metadata, but I was just wondering if there was a way to tell OS X that these aren't disc images, but CorelDRAW files and have them open in Illustrator by default. If there isn't oh well.

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