Can't Open Many Programs - Possibly due to Lack of a Tiff Compressor

I hope I'm posting this in the right place...
First, thanks for taking the time to read this.
Ok, down to business. A couple weeks ago I went to open the Halo Demo for Mac I had installed on my computer. After I chose to play in full screen mode, a large white screen displayed with the words: "Quicktime and a TIFF(LZW) Compressor are needed to view this picture." It then hangs there for a second or two and quits. I tried reinstalling the demo and opening it back up, but to no avail. I also had installed Macromedia Flash and Fireworks MX 2004 and Flash 8. They would appear in the dock after I tried opening them, hang there, and then would quit. I had to uninstall the Macromedia programs and the Halo Demo anyways because they were taking up space on my computer. I later found out about something that I wanted to do in Macromedia Dreamweaver, so I took my Studio MX 2004 CD plopped in my drive and reinstalled the entire suite onto an external hard drive formatted as Mac OS Journaled. The same thing happens with all adobe products installed on my computer (and with a few other programs); they either display the screen that says I need Quicktime (which I have installed) and a TIFF Compressor to display the image, or they just hang in the dock for a second and close. I opened the Console, tried opening dreamweaver, and the following log was displayed in the Console window:
dyld: NSAddImage() error
dyld: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/libConverter.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/libConverter.dylib
I'm not sure what that means, as I'm just starting to learn about advanced computing skills and such, but I noticed that it said that a suitable image wasn't found. I thought this sounded similar to the error message I was getting before. Be sure to note, though, that before I reinstalled the Halo Demo and Studio MX 2004 the first time, they did work. I think the problems arose at around the same time. I'm not sure what's going on, so I'd like to know if anyone has any answers or solutions to my problems. Any help would be appreciated.

Does anyone know the answer to my question? And is LZW the default Mac OS Tiff decompressor?

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