Issue involving FCP studio with quicktime

I'm involved with audio so FCP is very new to me, I'm running panther 10.3.9 and FCP freezes while loading, I was told to roll back from QT 7.0.4 to 7.0.1. It worked for about a month, but I now again am having the same issue. I tried reinstalling QT and starting from scratch but I am having that "phantom" installation issue that people complain about on the boards. Quicktime installs but it wont actually open. Can anyone help me out?
-Mike

First off, try Repairing Permissions with the Disk Utility, and trashing your preferences with FCP Rescue: http://www.pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue.
Then try this to get properly restore the QT to the version you need:
#30 - Deck recognition after Tiger Upgrade:
Shane's Stock Answer #30:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1063600&#1063600
The credit for this goes to Bob Sidebotham:
I was just walked through a repair procedure by an Apple Care person, and it fixed my camera recognition problems (I have a Canon XL1 and sometime after installing Tiger, then 10.4.1, various patches (including Quicktime 7.1) and the latest Desktop Video patch, I've been unable to use the camera with Final Cut Express, and attempts to capture would result in a FCE crash).
The workaround is to download Quicktime manually, after removing the "receipts" which indicate that it is loaded. Specifically, I was told to do the following:
1. Navigate to Library -> Receipts on your main drive (not from your personal folder).
2. Remove all files of the form QuickTime*.pkg, where "*" is a version number. E.g. QuickTime600.pkg, QuickTime650.pkg, Quicktime700.pkg and QuickTime701.pkg. This simply tells your system that those packages are not installed.
3. Go to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/downloads and click on the "download Quicktime" link. DO NOT USE THE AUTOMATIC UPDATE UTILITY. Download QuickTimeInstallerX.dmg. Double click this file (probably on your desktop) and then invoke the installer by double clicking QuickTime701.pkg.
4. After your computer reboots, you should be able to restart FCP and see your camera.
Shane

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