Having trouble with default applications

[iMacJoe]

Hello everyone. I own an iMac for my home computer and a MacBook Pro as my travel computer. Both of them have this exact issue. I have no idea if this is a widespread issue or a feature of the OS.

Everytime I turn on either of these computers after a shutdown, my default programs for the internet, opening documents, and viewing PDF files have been reset to the original defaults. Am I missing something here? Both of these computers run Leopard.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[NAG]

How are you changing these settings?

 

[iMacJoe]

When I open a PDF file, I tell it to open in Adobe, for instance, and then Adobe opens and says it is not set as the default PDF viewer, would I like to set Adobe as the default PDF viewer, click yes. That's how I change it for that. For the internet, I like using Firefox, so I either get a similar message opening Firefox, or I go into Safari and change my preferred web browser to Firefox.

When I shutdown my computer and turn it on later, those things have been reset.

 

[NAG]

Have you tried changing the settings for the default PDF reader using the get info command in the finder (file menu)?

 

[soccersquirt82]

I use RCDefaultApp to do this, and it works perfectly.

http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/set_default_applications_in_mac_os_x.html