I have Media Player for WMV files -- but Quicktime tries to open them

I have both Windows Media Player and Flip4Mac installed... but anytime I am trying to watch a WMV video on the Net, or when I download a WMV file... I always get a "can't play" error. It seems that Quicktime is trying to play these files... how do I disable this and tell all WMV's to play with Media Player?
When I download wmv's, they have the Quicktime logo on the icon... I have to right-click and then choose to play with Media Player (the icon changes) and THEN I can play it.
Advice? Thanks!

Sorry, I don't, though if you have an Intel-based Mac as your profile suggests, it may be that it can't set the default app to WMP since it's not Intel-native. You might want to ask about that in the Mac OS X or iMac Core Duo area and see if anyone can confirm that.
Note, though, that there's little if anything that the Flip4Mac codec (as long as you have the latest version) cannot play that the Mac version of WMP can. There are a number of codecs that Microsoft has only released for the Windows version of WMP, so if you're hitting any of those, nothing's going to play them in Mac OS X (this applies to any WMV or WMA content that carries copy protection).

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