Seeing duplicates in my Open With choices

Just recently I've noticed that when I Ctrl-Click on a file and choose Open With I see every option listed twice. You can see an example of this at http://snipurl.com/n098-SI0YS.
This happened before I updated to 10.4.5.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Kirk
Dual-Core 2ghz PowerMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Navigate to /library/caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore. You may have more than one with different negative numbers. Delete all of these.
Then navigate to ~(yourhome)/library caches
com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore Delete this also.
And ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist.
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-mj
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