Quicktime overriding .tif files

I am trying to open .tif and .tiff files and they were opening fine before I had to updated itunes and quicktime...now that I have updated them, quicktime is overriding my defaults to open the tif files. Please help! I have to have itunes on here, but I also need to open tif files in my other program. I have gone to the start menu and gone to default programs and made it what I need, but the quicktime is still overriding it....anyone have any other suggestions?

not sure how this ended up in for Mac OS....I use Windows 7

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