Why does the OS ask me to use StuffIt when StuffIt is not installed?

I have a brand-new Mac Book (10.4.8). I have not explicitly installed either Microsoft Office (though the Office trial is still running) or StuffIt.
I'm trying to download and open a .sit file. It erroneously gets opened by Microsoft Word. I've gathered from elsewhere on this forum that the problem is that I don't have StuffIt installed on my machine.
I used Spotlight to look for an application on my machine called Stuffit*, and couldn't find any.
However, when I try to download the file using Firefox I get a dialog box asking me whether I want to save it to disk or open it with StuffIt.
I'm confused.
1) Does Stuffit come preinstalled on the Mac?
2) If StuffIt is not installed on my machine, why do I get an option to use it in a download dialog?
Mac Book Mac OS X (10.4.8)

1) Does Stuffit come preinstalled on the Mac?
No
2) If StuffIt is not installed on my machine, why do I get an option to use it in a download dialog?
Don't know.. but if you're certain that neither you nor anyone else with access to the computer has installed it, you could just download it.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/182
If you choose the option to Open it with Stuffit from FireFox, what happens?

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