"Open with..." problem

Hey all,
I noticed recently that when I try to choose what to open a .psd file that my list of "open with" choices is really long. A lot of the choices are repeats too, for example "Open with Illustrator CS (8.0 x 117)" is listed 4 times and so on for many of my apps. Is there a way I can delete some of these to clean up and shorten the list?
-Gabe

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