How to open a file in the default application for it directly from QuickLook?

Is there a way to issue an Open command straight from QuickLook?
Problem:
I have a directory containing symlinks to the PDF files I usually refer to. I cannot copy the files locally and I must use symlinks.
When I need to open one of the files, I can't rely on Finder icon previews as these do not show for symlinks (I think that's absurd, don't you? Is there any reason why they would not?)
Not knowing how to pick the file I am interested in, I select them all and OPTION+SPACE QuickLook them. Immediately following OPTION+SPACE I press COMMAND+ENTER and finally see them all tiled across the screen (notice: COMMAND+ENTER is not bound in Finder as far as I can see, why not allow users to press that directly?)
Here's the problem:
Once I choose the file I want, with the mouse of the arrow keys, I don't see how I could open just that file in the owning application (say: Adobe Reader).
That, to me, is dumbfounding. COMMAND+O opens ALL files I selected to begin with but I think QuickLook should allow for opening the file currently being previewed with an UI element or a keystroke, shouldn't it?
It is so strange that it almost can't be, maybe I am just missing the obvious... in that case I apologise.  Feel free to report this to Apple if you think they can work on this.
For the record, it's the 29th of Aug 2012 and I am on 10.6.8.

Small update.
I created a database with a western european characterset We8MSWIn1252
If I use utl_file to write out the code on the database server it gets produced correctly in Ascii format with the accented charcacters.
As soon as I try and write out the code using owa_util.Mime_header and htp.p the code is written in UTF8 format.
I did try and write out the header specifying a western european characterset but it seems that if it encounters an accented character it automatically switches to utf-8 mode. If there are no accented charcters the file is produced in ascii format.
Really stumped on this one.

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