How do you identify computers with Quicktime Pro vs. player?

We use MS SCCM to inventory hardware and software. Many of our workstations have Quicktime Player (free) installed, but some groups have Quicktime Pro (not free).
I need to identify all computers that have Quicktime Pro. The problem is, if you look in Add/Remove Programs inventory, player and pro both show up as "Quicktime". They have the same version number, same product ID, same executables... I am not finding any way to differentiate between player and pro on two inventoried machines.
Is there ANY difference that I would be able to identify in inventory? (unique executable, different executable size etc...)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dave,
You are correct. Using SCCM I am able to produce a list of about 350 workstations that have "Quicktime" in their Add/Remove Programs menu. I need to identify which of those 350 are Quicktime Pro. Remoting into each of them to check that menu would be out of the question...
I did compare that preference file on a workstation with player vs. a workstation with Pro (at least I tried to) and I noticed that the machine with player was lacking that file. It had a different OS so I though I may have been looking in the wrong place, but if you are correct about that files presence only on machines with Pro then that could be my trigger...
Thank you so much for that input, I will verify on a few more machines and if it turns out to be true I may be able to modify my inventory collection to include that file so I can query on it.
I appreciate the help, I'll post back with what I find for the record.

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