IE QuickTime 7.0.4 Error

When I view web pages (myspace for example) and other users have videos or songs using QuickTime, all I see is a big blue Q with a question mark in the middle. I have gone into the Internet Explorer options and done everything I have already read about in this forum, nothing has worked. Also, when I go to the Apple site to re-download QuickTime, I de-select the options of being kept up to date by Apple and click the download button. It takes me to another page that says Congratulations...but my download never begins, never. I have tried accessing the page thru third party sites and finally had to enter in the .exe file name in order to start the download. So I downloaded QuickTime and the DirectX or ActiveX controller as this site says, I still have the big blue Q on my pages when I try to view anything supported by QuickTime in web pages. This happens in both Internet Explorer AND Mozilla Firefox. Please advise.

Too late, I read your first reply and purchased the MPEG-2 addin. I was very happy to see the files playing on Quicktime. I only wish you warned me of the limitations. Because I created my video files using Pinnacle Studio software in MPEG-2 for DVD format. Which means they where MPEG-2 Muxed. Not knowing about all this interlived BS I exported them to Mv4 files for the IPOD, and I got video but no audio. That is when I found the Q&A that talked about this. I am now out $50+ from Apple with no way to get a refund. I am very, very disappointed. Now it's back to square one where I have to experment converting my MPEG-2 files back to AVI so I can export with audio. As for Apple getting any more business from this customer, forget it. I now have to contact everyone I have spoken to in the last few days including my boss to stop them from buying that stupid addin. All I wanted to do was watch my home videos on my IPOD. I did not want to rip anything copyrighted! Do I hear class action against Apple. Only time and enough ripped off, upset customers like me will tell
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