Parallels default programme opening annoyance

Hi,
I am, annoying forced to use a couple of pieces of software that only have a windows compatible version, so run Parallels to do this.
Suddenly, for no reason I know of, all of my documents in Office Mac (and possibly other software) seem to want to open in the Windows version of Office from my documents in Leopard instead of using the mac version.
Obviously I can get around this issue through the "Open With..." menu and selecting the mac Office program manually, but I don't want to do this EVERY time I open a document. I certainly don't want Parallels opening every 5 minutes either!
I have tried the "always open with" option in the "Open With" menu box thing, but this doesn't seem to work on anything other than each file I individually select.
I'm sure there is a simple answer to this and I'm very dumb, but please do tell me!!!!
Thanks!

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