Quicktime hijacks file types and won't relaease them

Have to have it for Ipod but I really hate Quicktime. It's worse than AOL on my computer. For God's sake let me decide what files you open. The only way I can see MPG files is to uninstall Quicktime.

Ok, this one is fairly simple:
1. Go to a/the file in the filetype that u don't want quicktime to open (in your case a .mpg file)
2. Right-click it and put your mouse over "Open with", when the thing pops up, hit "Choose Program..."
3. Find the program u actually want to use (i'm presuming its Windows Media Player)
4. Click it and then check the box below that says "Always use selected program to open this file type"
5. Hit ok and u should be all-good
Well, hope it works out, post back here and if it dosn't I'll run through some more complicated stuff
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Thank you for the suggestion.
I put QuickTime (and DivX) in the trash, and only then would files ending with .sml open with Aquamacs. Even the files that still had the QuickTime icon opened correctly.
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I used the Property List Editor to look at com.apple.LaunchServices.plist and the entries for public.filename-extension for "lex" and "grm" that I also created for org.gnu.aquamacsemacs match the entry for "sml", and they still work. And as I said, the "sml" extension used to work just fine, so I don't think the problem is Aquamacs.
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