XMP files showing as unrecognizable icons in wondows

What is with these software companies? One can never upgrade anything these days without it screwing up some other aspect of your computer system and files. I recently upgraded to lightroom 1.4 and adobe camera raw and now all my xmp/sidecar files show as unrecognizable. They appear to be recognized in lightroom but I'm performing folder clean up and it is very annoying if you are trying to stay organized to see a bunch of blank tiles show up in your windows xp folders.
Anyone know how I can properly associate them to the correct program?
Thanks!

Click on My Computer
Tools > Folder Options > File Types
Click on the file type that you want to change which program it opens with.
Under Opens With Click on Change
Choose the program that you want the file type to open with.
The icon will change and become visible throughout Windows.

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Use something other than Photoshop to preview raw files. Most of the other ways are faster than opening them in Photoshop. The recommended workflow is to use a camera downloading utility to look through all the images on the card at once (instead of one by one as you are doing), and then select only the ones you want to bring into your computer. Bridge (via File > Get Photos from Camera, not by browsing), Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto all have that capability.
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If they should be stored somewhere beside the folder that contains the originals, where and how to change the settings?
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