How do I stop Quicktime grabbing my web clips?

I recently installed Web Clips as part of Google Desktop and began receiving feeds to download podcasts - so far so good. When I click on the daily podcast, Mozilla pops up a box asking me if I want to save or open the file (and with what application). I click to save it on the Desktop then copy the file to my PDA for listening later. Perfect! BUT then I wanted to buy an MP3 album which I could only find on iTunes, so I had to install iTunes to visit the iTunes store. I didn't ASK for Quicktime, but that downloaded, too. Now, when I click on my podcast in WebClips, the Quicktime logo briefly appears and something similar to a new browser window opens, with a graphic like you get in Quicktime/Media Player to show where you're at in the clip (but no other settings). There's no way to get rid of this or to save the file. I've tried going into Quicktime and iTunes and unchecking any box that would make it act as the default for just about everything but it still persists in grabbing the podcast. The only way I can stop it is to completely uninstall Quicktime AND iTunes - so I'm back to not being able to use the iTunes store again. I thought only Microsoft was capable of this 'you-have-to-use- our-product-or-else' arrogance.

Yes, I deleted all the websites and reset everything to "ask" except p2p which I turned off.
Whenever I first go to any page with flash content (from reboot) my webcam becomes powered - note I don't mean that it is actually recording but of course there's no way you can tell that when the light comes on.
This phenomenon only started with the current flash update.

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