Set file association using GPP

Hi
I am trying to change the default application used to open a particular file type. I tried it on the person's Windows 7 computer (in an AD domain).
I have tried changing the default file association using Control Panel. However, the text and the tick box "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is greyed out. Also, when I browse and navigate to the .exe I want to be the
default program, after selecting it the new .exe is not added to the list.
I thought I'd use Group Policy Preferences instead. However, when I right click Folder Options under Control Panel Settings and choose 'Open With' it won't accept the path I specify because the application is not installed on the server on which I am
editing Group Policy. ????
Is there a way for me to set this, please?
Ideally, I would like to be able to edit the clients directly without the need to use GPP where an application is used just on one machine. But, it would also be useful to be able to set some global options without the need to edit every single person's
file associations.
If anyone knows how to make changing file associations from the client editable that would be great. I don't understand why it is greyed out - is this something I may have set in Group Policy and have forgotten about?
Thanks.

> right click Folder Options under Control Panel Settings and choose 'Open
> With' it won't accept the path I specify because the application is not
> installed on the server on which I am editing Group Policy. ????
Simply type the path, do not use the browse button :)
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