Opera has magically installed itself yet I can't find its' location

Hi all,
About half an hour ago I tried opening a .torrent file only to have Opera pop up. Now this is curious as I never installed Opera and yet somehow the browser became the default application for torrent files. Not only that, but apparently I have both Opera 9.27 and 9.00 installed. This didn't happen last night when I last opened a torrent file which leads me to believe its a new installation.
I tried using spotlight to find opera and no luck. So I used Find to locate the app. Again, no luck. So I set Find's search parameters to show all applications on my mac. Still Opera is no where to be found, neither 9.27 nor 9.00. It is definitely installed as Opera opened and loaded webpages just fine but the only way to open opera is to right click a torrent file and select it. ***?
Earlier today I downloaded Temperature Monitor (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19994) and installed it. Nowhere do I see Opera is even mentioned and I haven't downloaded anything else. However, I cannot think of any other way Opera would have ended up on my system.
So... since neither spotlight nor Find can locate Opera, how to I find it? I've located all the Lib files associated with Opera but not the actual application. This really bothers me as it indicates to there possibly being other applications installed that I am not aware of. Has anyone else run into something similar, whether with opera or another piece of software?
Thanks in advance.

Jeffrey Jones2 wrote:
Many Adobe applications, such as Photoshop Elements, have a copy of Opera built in as a help viewer. You won't find it in an ordinary search because it is inside the application bundle (e.g., inside Photoshop).
This explanation solved a head-scratching mystery for me as well, since when I right-clicked an image file and looked at the "Open with..." possibilities, I was seeing multiple versions of Opera, but a Finder search would only reveal the location of one of them.
But it also raises a puzzling question:
If the "Open With..." contextual menu can see files which are contained inside Package bundles, and the Dock's "Show In Finder" function can do the same, WHY can't those same files be seen by a either a Spotlight search or a conventional top-right-corner-of-any-Finder-window search?
Seems strangely inconsistent, since these different functions are all part of the same OS -- or is there some obvious reason for this that I'm missing?
John Bertram
Toronto

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