Downloading windows media player help!

A lot of movies I try to watch on the web require WMP. I went to Microsofts page and downloaded the OSX version. It went straight to my desktop(looks like this: windows media.sitx) When I click on it, it give me an error saying ERROR OPENING MOVING. It looks like it is trying to use quiktime to open it. I am new to mac, so if anyone has any ideas how I can download WMP it would really help thanks!!!

If you have an Intel Mac then you probably don't even want to fool with WMP as it is not universal and Microsoft has stopped development of the product for the Mac. You might try Flip4Mac instead.
http://www.flip4mac.com/products.htm

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OK here's the deal, you can download www.flip4mac.com and load onto your Intel MBP. First thing to do before launching the flip4mac installer is to go to
Applications-->Utilities - Find the application "Installer" and right click- get info and check box "open using rosetta".
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I can't figure out how to get the playlists downloaded to the Zen Touch. Windows Media Player 0 would be the way to go if I could get the playlists to download.
I have played around over and over with the screens etc... I just can't figure out how to make them download with the Zen Touch anyway... 40 gig, for what it's worth.
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Message Edited by ng7m on 02-03-2005 05:33 AM

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If you purchased the pc in Europe or South Korea, you may have a Win 7 "N" or "KN" version which does not ship with Windows Media Player. Please see
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/products/what-is-windows-7-n-edition
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/find-which-edition-of-windows-7-you-are-using
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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16546
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You might want to take this problem up in the Safari forum, since it's not related to QuickTime, per se.
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