How to change Windows 7 file associations in the registry

Hi,
I have a group of computers that have Office 2010 installed and then PowerPoint Viewer 2007 was installed after that to temporarily resolve an SCCM 2007 patching issue. Needless to say, PowerPoint Viewer 2007 changed some of the PowerPoint 2010 file associations
to itself instead. I am scripting a clean-up operation to remove PowerPoint Viewer 2007 and set the file associations back to PowerPoint 2010. After doing some research, the few registry paths commonly called out do not contain the information that I am looking
to change.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
The file associations that I need to set back to PowerPoint 2010 are as follows:
.potm, .potx, .ppsm, .ppsx, .pptm, .pptx
Does anybody know where to look for where these file associations are set in the registry?
Thanks,
Rob

This is how it is done in vbscript as well:
http://www.visualbasicscript.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=97211&mpage=1#97217
Set objShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.potm\", "PowerPoint.TemplateMacroEnabled.12", "REG_SZ"
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.potx\", "PowerPoint.Template.12", "REG_SZ"
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.ppsm\", "PowerPoint.SlideShowMacroEnabled.12", "REG_SZ"
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.ppsx\", "PowerPoint.SlideShow.12", "REG_SZ"
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.pptm\", "PowerPoint.ShowMacroEnabled.12", "REG_SZ"
objShell.RegWrite "HKCR\.pptx\", "PowerPoint.Show.12", "REG_SZ"
One thing to note is that the user will need to log out and log in again to reload the changes to the registry which also updates the change to the file extensions.

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