Black box back on iCal Alarms

I just installed a QuickTime update and the alarm clock from iCal's alarm window is now the black box. This has happened before with a QuickTime update and it was fixed by enabling Flash: System Preferences->QuickTime->Advanced->check enable Flash box. I've tried to do this again but the Advanced pane does not have anything about enabling Flash. Anyone have any answers?

I just noticed the same thing, again -- the dreaded black box instead of an animated vibrating alarm clock that used to be there in event notifications... (the black box is quite ugly, really).
I since reviewed a couple of online sources, and it appears that Apple has disabled Flash animation in QuickTime -- either with the QuickTime 7.3.1 update. ("With this update, the Flash media handler in QuickTime is disabled except for a limited number of existing QuickTime movies that are known to be safe." Citation: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307176)
Consequently, there's no way to turn Flash on in the Advanced QuickTime preferences, as before.
Questions for you Apple employees out there: 1.) why is Apple's own alarmclock.mov file (the one we're used to seeing) considered unsafe?
And 2.) couldn't you give us a break and post another another .mov file that'll work, or give us a workaround, so we don't have to look at that nasty black box?
We'll love you forever if you can help.
[iCal 1.5.5 (v670)]

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