How to "divorce" linked file associations (e.g. .rar and .cbr)?

Mac OS X links some file associations together as if the extensions were synonymous. This is obviously desirable in some cases, e.g. .jpg and .jpeg. But it is equally obviously undesirable in others, e.g. .zip and .cbz, and .rar and .cbr; treating them the same just because the underlying compression algorithy is the same is absurd (by that reasoning, .jar would be considered synonymous with .zip!) These obviously need to be opened in different apps, but the OS won't permit this (other than by drag-and-drop or "Open with...").
I need a way to change what extensions the OS thinks are equivalent. Any ideas? I searched MacUpdate for "association" but didn't find anything relevant, so it looks like there's no app tailored to this purpose.

Yes, of course. If you change one, it changes the other. I repeat, the OS itself is treating .rar and .cbr as synonymous, like .jpg and .jpeg.
UPDATE: It seems that the OS does not do this with .cbz to the extent that it does with .cbr. By default, it treats .cbz as if it were .zip, but if you use Get Info -> Change all on .cbz, you can in fact set it to a different app. This is not the case with .cbr; if you change .cbr it changes .rar, and vice versa. This stuff has to be in a plist somewhere.

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