Streamclip launches with WMV files

So I have a new intel MBP and I'm waiting for an universal binary of Flip4mac WMV player. I have MPEG Streamclip downloaded for home DVD conversion to DV.
Anyway, whenever I click on a wmv file in Safari it downloads the file and Streamclip launches and gives an error message.
Now, it's annoying enough to have to trash these WMV downloads, but to have to quit streamclip everytime is driving me nuts.
Why is Streamclip even launching and is there some setting I can change to fix this? Will eventually downloading flip4mac solve the problem?
Thanks

Don't click on a WMP file.
Use the browser status menu (bottom of the browser window) and hover your mouse over a suspected link. If your see a WMP file extension (.wma, .wmv, .asf and a few others) you don't click
Open one of these downloaded files and use the Get Info window to change the default open with app. Set it to none.

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