Help - White Question Mark

I installed Flash software today, and it is causing my Quicktime Pro software to give me a whirte question mark over the QT logo. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can repair this?
Thanks,
-AstraPoint

I had the same problem and spent two days till I finally got my problem fixed. I unchecked the ENABLE FLASH VIDEO under the advanced Quicktime menu in system preferences . This did not solve my problem. If that did not solve your problem go to the advanced tab (same place) and clicked MIME settings RESTORE DEFAULTS.
That did the trick for me.

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