My Old Illustrator 8 files are being seen as text files..help

Help...I am needing to go back to some old Illustrator files to update them.
The problem is that they are are only being seen as 'text' files, and i cannot open them.
I am running CS3 but have access to CS2 also.
I have updated to Mac OX version 10.6.6...could this be the problem?

Add .ai to the filename
CMD I on the file
Change open with to AICS3
While here take a look at the file size (eg:1.6mb in that above screenshot)  is it really small?
If that don't work try creating a new user account and see if you can open the file.

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