Word files opening with wrong application when attached

So here is a new one..
Whenever I open a word file that someone has sent me directly from the message in mail it opens with an application called note taker. Yet when in finder if I double click on a word file it opens in word. What gives and how do I change this?
I am really not happy with Leopard thus far....

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Please try suggests here to restore the default file association:
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