Windows file association to correct version of InDesign.

I support customers using older versions of InDesign: CS3 and CS4. I have both installed on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop. Depending on which version a document was saved with, there is a different icon associated with the file. That tells me that Windows does in fact recognize a difference between the files. Double-clicking any InDesign document in an explorer window always opens the file in CS4 -- regardless of which version the document was saved as. Is there a way to "inform" Windows to launch the correct version of InDesign to access any given document?

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The only reason Quick Time has existed on my computer in recent years is so I have access to iTunes. I’ve uninstalled both Quick Time and iTunes till I find a solution to this problem which means iTunes isn’t selling me anything in the mean time.

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This is something I do NOT want, and I am really ****** off that Quicktime just takes over this feature without asking me first!!
That being besides the point really because I also cannot find the option in Quicktime's settings to undo this!!
When I go to Quicktime's settings -> Browser -> MIME types
It just shows that .mp3 is linked to Winamp (like I want it to be), but it still opens as a Quicktime Control Object.
Reinstalling IE8, resetting its settings, disabling the iTunes & Quicktime addons, even removing the Quicktime Control Object class from the registry... Nothing worked!
http://www.archive.org/details/testmp3testfile
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That being besides the point really because I also cannot find the option in Quicktime's settings to undo this!!
When I go to Quicktime's settings -> Browser -> MIME types
It just shows that .mp3 is linked to Winamp (like I want it to be), but it still opens as a Quicktime Control Object.
Reinstalling IE8, resetting its settings, disabling the iTunes & Quicktime addons, even removing the Quicktime Control Object class from the registry... Nothing works!
http://www.archive.org/details/testmp3testfile
Here you can find an mp3 file to use for testing.

Yes Winamp does ask for that, no Quicktime clearly doesn't (not when installing iTunes for my iPhone)
I have Winamp Lite btw, not Pro, but I find it not agressive at all. You can easily select or deselect all the settings during setup and they don't do anything else that you don't want to.
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Sea-Story time
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