Handling mp3s in safari

hello
currently when i click on an mp3 link the file downloads and then plays in iTunes. however, i would prefer it to play inside safari with the quicktime plugin. how do i change it so this happens
this problem occured after i installed itunes 4.9. can anyone help???
thank you

I tried this solution. It makes sense at first, but for some reason MP3 files still open up in iTunes. I've got Safari 2.0.1 and iTunes 4.9.
In Firefox, it gives the option to open in Quicktime, but in reality it just opens using the default OS app for MP3s.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the use itunes for Internet music playback option. I wish there was a way to undo that.
As a workaround, I'm setting up my web page to embed the MP3 files using the HTML <embed> tag, but I still wish there was a way to fix this.

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