Reset icons for a file type system wide?

All of the .mpg files on my system are from a camcorder that records MPEG-2 video with 5.1-channel audio that QuickTime cannot play.
By default all of these .mpg files had a QuickTime icon, even though QuickTime can't play them. I assigned a different application (VLC) to these files through the normal Get Info >> Open With >> Change All method and now all of my .mpg files open with VLC and play just fine.
However, after I pressed Change All it seems the system changed about half of the icons on my .mpg files to VLC's icon and left the rest with QuickTime icons.
Is there any way to change all the .mpg icons back to one or the other (preferably VLC, since that's what actually plays them)?
Needless to say changing icons one file at a time would be too time consuming.
Any help appreciated.

The problem I had may be similar to yours. I de-installed iWork 8, after testing it. I have a registered copy of iWork 6 and i was happy.
Anyway, after the de-installation all the Pages icons where folder icons!?! While searching the net for a solution, because none of the described methods worked, I remembered that *Onyx, the maintenance program, has a function to delete and rebuild the application-file links*.
So I did this and everything was fine after assigning the default application (Pages)...except one of my pdf file icons on the desktop was broken, so be aware!

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Reset icons for a file type system wide?

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