Downloading Quicktime files in Safari - Snow Leopard.

I seem to be having trouble downloading a quicktime file from my University website since I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I found some posts on other sites that say you can get the URL from Safari's activity window and paste it into the 'open URL' box in Quicktime 7 - or even just double click the URL in the activity list. These seem to work ok; however, the Quicktime file I'm trying to access seems to be embedded in the University System; I know they use Java, so I'm presuming its embedded in a Java applet. This means that the URL of the file is not displayed in Safari's activity window and is not part of the HTML source code. This, combined with the lack of the old Quicktime 7 Pro menu tab on the window, mean I can't download the file.
Does anyone know if there's a way around this? It would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Awesome, Limnos! That's done the trick; thanks very much for your advice.

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