Links to Real Audio Stream use VLC now

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Links to Real Audio stream that used to start RealPlayer (v10) & play via that now start VLC 1.1.0 & use that to play audio.
I prefer the playback & feedback available w/ Real Audio player & can't seem to get VLC to let go of these links.

Please can anyone help me! I installed VLC to play MP4 videos which it does fine, but I wish it hadn't messed up the rest of my system. Also when I click on those links VLC often crashes (so it says & asks if I want to send report, which I do) & then plays them w/ VLC. I've tried setting associations in VLC to not open mp3 or m3u but that makes no difference.

One of the links that is giving me a problem is:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/ ... proto=rtsp
for Democracy Now. Note that this is a link to .ra which suppossedly is not handled by VLC.

Another is http://kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u ... at1000.mp3
This also starts VLC.

[acetylcholine]

Just wanted to add - I'm running Windows XP pro SP3, P4 2.4GHz.
I've noticed that the Real audio or mp3's that plays in VLC misses about a syllable every once in a while - may be regular, but haven't timed it so I'm not sure, but seems like it. I didn't find this when RealPlayer was playing these same sources, so pretty sure it's not the source (also paused it for a bit so it should have been able to buffer source & not have skips). Sounded as thought it was missing a bit at the end or beginning of an internal buffer. Missing a syllable on some of these sources made the talk almost uninteligable if the skip occurred on a critical syllable.

Think it does the same thing w/ the .mp4 videos I've played. If I backup playing a bit the skip seems to occur at a different place. That's on downloaded files, so the source is not the problem w/ those.

[VLC_help]

Real Media playback in VLC isn't perfect. Sync and other playback issues are known problems.