i opened the control panel file exchange and its definately what i want. it has all the types of files and applications that can run them here's the wierd part; it says that quicktime can run avis (also that real player can run them too but thats not wierd) im gonna try taking quiktime off the avi list so that real player will be the only one that can run avis so maybe itll open avis in real player automatically???

There are also 2 boxes that i could check and maybe that would help me out with my problem theyre as follows:

Map PC extensions to Mac OS file types on PC disks
Open unmapped files on any disk using mappings below

Then at the bottom of the window it has another box that could be checked that says

PC SCSI Disks: (box) mount at startup (button) Mount now

If these will help me out, please tell me

if u dont know, hopefully someone else will read this post and help me