Can't Remove QUICKTIME icon

Somehow quicktime got incompletely installed on my system (OS is Win 98SE). Everytime my comp starts up there is a QT icon on the lower right. Problem is, I can't get rid of it. When I right-click all the selections are greyed-out so I can't select them. The only ones that I can select are "exit" and "quick time website". When I go to control panel I cannot unistall it because it is not listed as a program. I tried to download QT hoping I could then unistall it, but I can't because my OS is not supported. I installed windows install clean-up and ran it but there is nothing listed for QT. I did find qttask.exe in my windows folder. (Not sure if I can just drag this to the recycle bin or not?)
Could someone PLEASE help me get rid of this. Ever since it appeared, my Internet Explorer browser has been shutting down on certain websites.
Thanks.
  Windows 98  

Start -> Find -> Files or Folders
I enter Quicktime uninstaller and come up with 3 files:
1. QUICKTIMEINSTALLER[1]FFF848A1.log in Windows\Temp
2. QuickTime in Program Files\adobe\acrobat 6.0\reader\plug-ins\multimedia\mpp
3. QuickTime602.bak in same folder as above.
When I do the same method to search for Quicktime I get the same 3 files.
When I search for QT I get: (type listed in parentheses)
Qtw in Windows (configuration setting)
Qtw.--- in Windows (---File)
QT Plugin.ocx in Window\System (ocx file)
qttask in Windows\system (application)
aqtau in program files\java\j2re1.4.2_05\lib\zi\asia (file)
aqtobe *same as above*
and some other files that I don't think are relevant.
What should I do? Should I drag them to the recycle bin 1-by-1? (I don't want to delete anything I shouldn't)
By the way, I am not sure if this website (http://umvetim.cvm.umn.edu/) may have installed it, but I couldn't get this site to work and this was around the time I started noticing the QT icon in the systray. (It is a site to look at digital PACS images (x-rays, CT scans, Ultrasound images etc).
Thanks,
Jeff

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