Pdfs not recognized as pdfs

I keep a folder full of pdf copies of pay stubs going back several years. After upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion, 2/3 of them are not recognized as pdfs any longer. Mountain Lion tries to open them with TextEdit, leading to a page of gibberish. If I use Get Info, and force the document to be opened with Preview, it opens fine. I have told it to open all similar documents with Preview. Just curious what "broke" in the upgrade, and why I had to jump through these hoops. Also, very inconvenient not to be able to use QuickView on these docs.

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