I don't want Mail to be the default when I contact someone

When a website contains a 'contact us' link, Mail automatically opens when I click the link. How do I change this? I have never been able to send & receive e-mail properly with Mail and it is useless for Mail to automatically open because I can't use it anyway.
Thanks for any advice!

Set Mail > Preferences > General > Default Email Reader to whatever mail client you want to be the default.
Yes, unless your preferred mail client has a similar option to do the same, you’re supposed to use Mail in order to specify that you don’t want to use Mail, and in Mac OS X 10.4 you wouldn’t even be able to do that without setting up a mail account in Mail first.

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Ernie,
Thanks for your reply.
Well I am not trying to use any e-mail clients at this moment. All I am doing is using hotmail, or yahoo mail for e-mail. This little problem happens only when I click on an embedded link inside of an email that I recieved, that is prompting me to repond via email, i.e. "click here to email tech support". If I do this the Mail client in OS X comes popping up when all I wanted was the "compose email" section of yahoo or hotmail to actually come up so I can type the email. Does this help clarify my issue? Thanks again for your help.
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