Why does windows media player cut off after 4 minutes?

I use safari and like to listen to some radio from the internet that uses windows media player on my G5. I updated the media player recently and now it quits after four minutes no matter what media is playing. I do not have windows media on my other machine and VLC opens automatically whenever I click on a stream in my browser... and it never quits or has any problems and is remarkably faster than the windows player. How do I change the settings in Safari so that it will use VLC to automatically open any of those media files instead of media player??
I did download Flip4mac but it does not seem to be helping!!
thanks
kt

Your More system details list show the WMP plugin (np-mswmp), so that should be working.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_plugins
* http://www.vdat.com/techsupport/windowstest.asp

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