update: i just tried uninstalling winrar, deleting all file types associated with winrar, uninstalling the quickpar, and replaced the 003 file with the new downloaded one. i then installed winrar again and made it the program to open the file .003 and it stall came up as file type winrar .001 file.
so i was wondering is there a way to just restore the all the file types to the default settings..? well i just thought about doing a system restore so im going to try that.