Garage Band: Quicktime sound vs. iTunes sound

I created a song in Garageband (it sounds fine there). I exported it to disk. If I play the file in Quicktime Player, it sounds great -- exactly as it did in Garage Band. However, if I import it into iTunes and play it there, it is pretty badly distorted; lots of clipping and super heavy bass.
I am not using ANY EQ in iTunes.
Does anybody know why Quicktime would play the file normally, but iTunes (which I imagine uses Quicktime) would distort it so badly?
G4 450DP   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Thanks for the reply! I checked all of those things: no Sound Enhancer, no Sound Check and EQ set to "none."
It's weird ... it's like iTunes brings the track in too "hot."
I have found that if I drop the volume (on the track, not the main iTunes volume) down to -80 and turn on Sound Check, the track sounds just like it does in Garage Band and Quicktime Player.
This has got me stumped.

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