.rar file and translations troubles

I am very lost with downloading the lastest firmware and with getting the english translation back onto my M6 player. I had to restore my player back to the factory setting, so now everthing is in kanji or kana which i cannot read. How do I get english back onto the player?
And one more problem I am unable to get around, is when i download the firmware for the play it is a .rar file and it opens with windows media player. what program should i have it open with? how do i get it to not open with windows media player?

any advice i will greatly accept.

For changing language, please see this sticky.

Files on this site are usually rar-ed. You will need a special program for this, I recommend WinRAR which can be acquired from www.rarlabs.com.

For your first question an extract from the FAQ:

Change System Language:

1. Turn on the player.
2. Click on Menu button to enter the main menu.
3. Select second option.
4. Select third option.
5. Select the language you want to use.

And to open .rar files, just download WinRAR here in your prefered language.

Hope I could help you :D


EDIT: 1 minute before me Err0r... next time i'll be faster :P ;-)

Thanks much for your quick reply. I got everything working and now am a happy camper