Smart Objects in CS4 not opening correctly

I am experiencing a problem in CS4 at work that is giving some trouble. First off, I'm running a quad core, Mac Pro running Snow Leopard with 3GB of RAM.
Here is my issue. If I have an existing Photoshop document with a placed EPS Smart Object file (which was created in Illustator CS3 or CS4) or I Place an image using File>Place, and I double click it to open for editing, it's opening in Preview and not in Illustrator. But, if I open the EPS in Illustrator, select the graphic, copy, then paste into Photoshop as a Smart Object, double-clicking the square to edit works just fine.
After searching through the preference and Google searches, I just can't seem to figure out why.
Please help for this is very frustrating!
Thanks in advance.
JimmyDC

Thanks Chris,
That's pretty much what I had to do. Basically, I had to control-I on an EPS file, change the Open WIth to Illustrator, then checked "use this application to open all like documents" . Works like a dream now.
It appears that Snow Leopard restructured the way files are opened via their creator codes. If anyone is interested, here is a MacWorld article I found that was written back in September.
http://www.macworld.com/article/142937/2009/09/snowfiles.html
Again, thanks for the help!

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