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Can anyone PLEASE help me?! I'm going insane here. I just upgraded to Firefox 3, but the same thing was happening with Firefox 2. Any time I tried to subscribe to a page using Firefox Live Bookmarks (or do anything related to RSS feeds), my mac launches the Mail app and forces me to subscribe to the feed there. I don't even have Mail configured with any accounts anymore. Mail was set to use Firefox as the RSS reader, Safari is set to use Firefox as the RSS reader, and yet any time I click an RSS feed, it launches Mail. I've trashed my Mail preferences, but it keeps doing it!! What's going on here?! Please help, this is driving me crazy.

You might think the exact same thing happens, and that clicking an RSS link in Safari would simply launch mail and give me the same configuration screen (again, Mail is no longer configured on my computer so it always wants me to set up an account). But no! Trying to subscribe in Safari actually opens a new tab in Firefox, which loads a blank page for a few seconds, and THEN mail launches and tries to handle the RSS subscription.
I tried subscribing to a live bookmark in Firefox on a PC just to see what the behavior was supposed to look like, and saw that it loads a feedburner page with a preview of the feed, and at the top is an interface to decide what on your computer is supposed to handle feedburner feeds. I can either leave it set to Live Bookmarks, or choose any other application I want. I wonder if the same sort of thing is going on with the Mac? Somehow the Mail app got locked into being the default application for RSS feeds and I can't change it? I mean, obviously something like that is going on, I just don't know what to do about it.
I tried going into System Preferences - Default Apps to see if there was an RSS entry there, but when I try to run Default Apps, I get the message "You cannot open Default Apps preferences because it doesn't work on an Intel-based Mac." Oh.

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