When I double click a CS3 Illustrator file in finder, it opens in preview, not in Illustrator CS4.

When I double click a CS3 Illustrator file in finder, it opens in preview, not in Illustrator CS4.
Is anyone having this same issue?
Is there a quick and easy method to convert to CS4.
I have 4000 ads, 3,000 are from freelancers that are CS3 or CS2.
Jim Etheridge

Select a couple of .ai files and Get Info on the files. Go to the Open with line and set it to Adobe Illustrator. When it ask if you want it to do the same for this file type answer yes. The OS is probably seeing the file as a PDF and Preview by default is set to open PDFs.

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