Error opening video files - mp4 h.264 - Error -50: an unknown error

Whenever I try and load a movie in Quicktime then I get the message:
"Error -50: an unknown error occurred" and then it fails to load. Quicktime appears to be left running in the background, but there is no GUI.
The player can be launched without a file, but once loading a file it gives the same error.
I am specifically trying to load camcorder MP4 (H264) files, but this appears to happen with other file formats as well.
I have tried uninstalling from control-panel and then downloading and installing the latest version, but this still doesn't work.
A search shows that lots of other people are having the same problem, but the only solution appears to be to install an older version of Quicktime. Is that a real solution? Is there somewhere that the older versions can be downloaded from?
More relevant is there some fix that allows this to work in the latest version?
I am running Windows Vista
Thanks

Thanks - that will help with playing the video. Unfortunately that doesn't solve all of my problems. I have Adobe Premiere Elements, which uses Quicktime when importing H.264 (it doesn't have a native import, but instead calls Quicktime as requried). As Quicktime doesn't work this means that I'm unable to import into Premiere Elements.
I'm still looking for a way to get Quicktime working. This seams to be a bug in Quicktime as others seam to have the same problem.

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