Links in Quicktime Movies

I need to put links into the end of a Quicktime movie. I've tried this tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html, but it doesn't work. I heard there was an automator script to add URL's to a Quicktime movie, but it doesn't allow me to specify where I can add the link to the movie.
Any suggestions?

After a couple hours of troubleshooting (AKA beating my head
against a wall) I found my problem. The user computer did not have
quicktime installed on it. I even have a link from my projector to
install quicktime, I just wasn't thinking. As far as the text goes
I was just missing an xtra, easy fix.

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