Quicktime files not playing on published iweb site.

Hi,
I can't seem to get my QT movies to play on my iweb published site.  Occasionally, I can get them to play, but even then it's only in slideshow mode (i.e., they won't play if you just select the movie thumbnail from the album view).  I compressed them using QT pro (they are small files) and used the "fast start" option so theoretically they should start playing right away.  Some of them just show the QT logo and some show the QT logo with a question mark.  I recently upgraded to mountain lion, but had this issue before the upgrade.  I use fatcow as my domain host and  used to use go daddy.  I don't recall having this issue with go daddy, but it seems unlikely that that change is what is causing the issue.
please help.
-alaina

Usually this happens when the path to the movie file is not correct or the files isn't uploaded at all.
Also check your movie file names to make sure there are no spaces or special characters in them.
There are better ways to display movies on a website and you can see some here...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Player-Showcase.html
To make sure your movie will play in all browsers and on all devices, an HTML5 player with flash fallback is the preferred option...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Movie-Video/Fallback-To-Flash.html
For mobile devices like iPhone/iPad the movie should be prevented from loading with the page files by using a poster image and setting preload to "none".

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