VLC allways have problems with the file associations manager, when it make a click in apply/accept crash vlc.
The problem was very intermitent, between 0.8.6 to 1.1.8 happen.
I wish for an update for this problem and in the version 1.1.9 was resolved(no crash upon apply the changes to the file associations).
Now with 1.1.10 crash again, i only enable to change the associations in the install.
I try many things, clear register, new options, etc; the problems remains.