ITunes/Quicktime fix for Vista?

Many commerical podcasts, as well as videos I know work in XP and MacOS don't seem to want to allow me to add them to my iTunes lib nor sync to my iPod. I suspect it's Quicktime's fault since when I try and play them in Vista quicktime says it cannot read the files atom, but the same videos run fine in XP and MacOS.
I've reinstalled both many times in vista in case it was some sort of bad install and found other people having the same problem on these forums.
Any word on an iTunes/Quicktime fix for Vista to allow us to view/sync these files again?

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I'm guessing by the looks of this discussion board that there are hundreds of viewers that have this problem and 10's of thousands who havn't griped yet.
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