Universal vs PowerPC

Hi all,
I have a bit of a puzzle here. Why would my Quark 7 application show up as a PowerPC app (looking at the Get Info dialog) on my Mac Pro running Leopard?
I have the same setup on another machine but there it shows as Universal (as it should).
The only difference between the two machines is that Leopard came pre-installed on the "correct" machine and a result of an upgrade on the "faulty" one.
This would not bother me so much but seeing how slllloooooooooow Quark runs on that "faulty" machine, I can't help thinking that Quark in running in Rosetta.
Anything I can do to fix this short of re-installing the OS?
TIA

Hi Stefan,
Just to make this clearer. This "faulty" machine was running Tiger on Intel prior to the upgrade to Leopard. Quark was (I believe) running on Intel prior to the Leopard upgrade as well.
We have just re-installed Quark after upgrading to Leopard and as for your last question, the "open in Rosetta" check box is not even present in the Get Info dialog because the OS thinks this is a PowerPC app, hence the rub.
I have noticed this "behaviour" as well in the past where a Universal build would show up as PowerPC or an application would not be showing anything at all.
TIA

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