Cannot disable 'File Types' associations in QT Preferences

When I open QuickTime Preferences, then choose File Types from the Browser tab, it is impossible to UNCHECK any of the already-associated file types. QuickTime seems perfectly happy to let me check any of the types that are not already checked and re-assign their association to QuickTime, but not the other way around. The ones that are checked will not change when I click on them.
What is the workaround for this? Thanks.
Dell Dimension E520 Windows Vista

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Also if by chance the preferences are corrupt you
could try deleting the file QuickTime qtp
Another will be created when the QT control panel is
re-opened
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime qtp
If you have QT pro write down the Registration info
to re-enter in case it disappears, but it should
remain
There's no indication that anything's corrupt. Everything displays fine when I open QT normally; it was only when I opened it as Administrator that the file associations would not show up in the window.
This whole problem appears to entirely by design, nothing to do with an error or corruption. QT appears, with this latest version, at least in Vista, to not allow the user to change the file associations that are already assigned to QuickTime. I just wanted to know if anyone knows a workaround for it. If somebody using Vista could try to reproduce the problem, then we could know for sure.
Thanks.

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