Uninstalling Quicktime Manually

I just jumped through a hundred hoops trying to get my iTunes to work again after an update. There was no error message, but there was a message that said an old version of Quicktime (7.0d.0) is installed and iTunes requires a newer version.
The problem was, that when I installed iTunes the newest version of Quicktime came with it and was installed the same time as iTunes.
So, writing over top of the older version did not work. I went to Add/Remove and Quicktime was not listed. I tried installing the stand alone version of Quicktime, but that did not work either.
There was no uninstaller in the Quicktime folder in Program Files either.
I did without Quicktime and iTunes until today, when again I tried to get them working. Neither of them would work after much work. I even tried manually deleting anything to do with either of them from the registry, but they still would not work, because somewhere in the regisrty an old version file for Quicktime was still registered.
I was going through my Start menu and burried deep inside several folders I found the only uninstaller for Quicktime on my system and ran it. That did it. It unregistered the old version allowing the new version to function.
This has happened to me before and I could not remember how I came across a fix.
In case this happens again, and while all this is fresh on my mind, I want instructions on how to properly do a manual uninstall of Quicktime, that I can stash away for a rainy day.
Windows XP
Windows XP

Download and install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. then use it to clear any existing QuickTime installation configuration information from your PC:
Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
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