Audio files sound wobbly in my 7.1.6

Anyone else experience this --
My audio files (aac,mp3) are sounding a bit "off" when played in Quicktime Pro 7.1.6 They sound ever-so-slightly wobbly, with some faint clicking here and there. The same songs when played in my Itunes (up to date) on same computer sound absoultely fine.
Any reports of this? Remedies?

okay. i don't usually associate Norton with this sort
of thing (i associate it many other iTunes
issues, but not with this one.)
let us know if disabling Norton helps ... if not,
we'll try working through some other possibilities.
Hi,
Disabling the Norton did not help, however I found another solution. I ended up deleting the new iTunes and installing the older, but latest of version 6 which I remember having worked well and viola... success! It works great! Thanks again for you help and time b noir. Nice to have the player working again.
Dell Dimension 8100 Windows 2000 Pentium 4, 1.5g, 1gig RAM

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