Audio is jerky with Quicktime videos

Thanks to Gary Teresi for doing the research and posting the two links below that show QuickTime performing differently.
I noticed that there were no more posts followng his post aside from one that verified that the following information is true. He found two separate streams where the behavior is completely opposite, one with jerky audio and one without. Hard to imagine it's a setting on my computer causing the issue.
Here is an example of a file that only the video plays fine, but the audio is very distorted... (click this week's message)
http://www.kcbt.org/shaping/sermons/audio.htm
But there is another site which when played has no distortion...(select one of the stapler in action movies)
http://www.virtualstapler.com/gallery/paperstapler.asp
I could really use some help answering the following two questions.
1) How can you be sure (aside from formatting the hard drive) that your current QuickTime version has been uninstalled? Is there a registry key that can be removed? I uninstalled and uninstalled, and then installed an earlier version, but it still comes up as the latest version.
2) What are the settings that some have found are the problem creating this issue? Some have said that settings not set appropriately can cause similar issues. Has anyone been able to duplicate this issue by changing settings?

I, too am having the same problem.
One thing that i have tried was to uninstall Itunes and Quicktime and install Quicktime Alternative.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
Once i did that, i went back to a website...
http://www.kcbt.org/shaping/sermons/audio.htm
On the right hand side of the page there is a QT logo with play this weeks message.
When i click on it, it opens and the sound is very distorted, the video is fine, (except in my case i'm having trouble w/ the audio and video being out of sync.)
Any way, i opened the file, let it finish downloading, then i right clicked in the same window and chose to "save as source" or "save as QT file" and save it to my desk top.
i right click on the file and another dialog box comes up asking what i want to open the file with.
After many tries w/ different media players, i finally got the the file to WORK in (of all things!), Windows Media Player!!!
i hope someone would try this also, and let me know, if this works for you.
Thank You,
Gary Teresi

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