Mavericks doesn't recognize unknown file extensions as extensions

I did a clean install of Mac OS X 10.9 mavericks recently, and now the darnest things is happening:
I can't seem to get Mac OS X to recognize that unknown file extensions are file extensions.
I don't mean I'm having trouble associating file extensions to apps or any of that elementary stuff. What I mean is if there's no app on my system that recognizes a particular file extension, then Mac OS X is treating it as if it weren't a file extension. For example, in Get Info… I can't hide an extension for an unknown type. This also means:
I can't seem to assign all of these files to a single application as I can for known file types.
In my case, I have a bunch of plain text UTF8 files with a .ctp extension (these are HTML/PHP files that act as templates in a framework I use).
Additionally, the files seem to have old legacy type/creator codes (I think, or some other mechanism). Because:
Finder indicates some are Unix executables.
Finder indicates some are simply "Document."
I've cleaned Launch Services, restarted, added the filetype to BBEdit (hoping it would take ownership and update Launch Services). All to no avail.
I suppose I could create a quick and dirty Mac App and register a new UTI and take ownership of these files, but that seems kind of user unfriendly in general. Does anyone have a better (quicker, easier) solution?

Let me point out another behavior to the above that is puzzling. If I rename a file, e.g., myfile.ctp to myfile.ctp.php then Mac OS X knows that there's an extension, and treats the file properly. Then if I again remove the extension (leaving the .ctp) Mac OS X is treating the file as if it didn't have an extension at all, even though it's ".ctp".

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