How to preview an imported mov footage?

Howdy,
I am following along the book "AE Apprentice" and apparently when I double-click an imported quicktime mov in the Projects panel, it supposed to open the quicktime player (or it's own internal player) so I can play the movie.
But it doesn't. Instead, double-clicking the video, it opens in the Footage window where all I can do is drag the timeline thing bar.
I tried ALT, CTRL, SHIFT and any combinations, but the movie doesn't open it's own player.
Can someone point out if I am missing something? Quicktime is obviously installed (7.5.5) and working properly otherwise.
AE CS3
WinXP Pro SP3 32bit
Thanks!

Double-clicking on footage in the project window should open in in the After Effects Footage window, as you are observing. That is the expected behavior, as far as I know.
If you select the item in the project window, and hit "Ctrl E", it will send AE a request to open that footage item in it's associated "external editor". In your case, it should launch the file in Quicktime Player.
edit: To Todd, as an interesting note that I discovered when replying to this post, it seems as if the "Edit Original" command under the Edit menu remains "greyed out" even though the keyboard shortcut is usable when having a footage item selected in the Project window. Is this a bug that you were aware of, and is it something that is addressed in CS4?
Windows XP pro 64
CS3

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