Lost Playhead in QT with Streaming Media

Question

We have 3 different computers in our house, Mac Pro, Mac Mini and PowerPC laptops. We used to stream media (radio, TV) from a series of websites, using Flip4Mac to convert Windows Media to compatible steams for QuickTime Pro. We would then save portions of the streamed media using the Select All function, cutting and pasting, etc. I could export shows from the streamed broadcasts to my iPod, etc. No longer. The playhead and selection bars have disappeared and the 'copy' and 'paste' are gone from the menus. When the streaming media come up, the phrase, "buffering..." briefly appears and then the bar next to the time in the browser becomes gray. The streaming begins without the playhead. Oh, yes, all the software is up to date. ....
However, if i re-load an older movie or download a video, i can still get these items. I went to see one of the geniuses at our local Apple Store, and after confirming that the functionality existed for the same streams in the store itself (also running Flip4Mac), explained the problem. Hours later, after everyone in the store had messed with my computer, i left with no solution, except to re-install Leopard. Of course, i wasn't going to do this without re-installing my preferences, files, etc., and after all this, still no playhead!
Someone out there has solved this problem. I know this because i read the solution a couple years ago here and resolved the issue. If anyone out there has solved this problem, please help! (Perhaps some Apple Developer is curious to know what kinds of bugs are out there and can set us straight?)

Answer 1

So sorry. Sounds as if you have the same problem i had.
However, in addition to proving to myself that QT can be made to work by going to the Apple Store, as recounted earlier, i have now established the same thing at home, where i really needed it. It was brute force but successful. One of our older Power PC G4 laptops had the problem i have described, but the other did not appear to have it. The playhead was still there, but in the player, not in Pro. (We had never upgraded to Pro on this computer.) Tonight, i upgraded this computer to Pro and not only the playhead was there, but also the copy and paste functions. After installing a trial version of Flip4Mac, i verified that the playhead and other functions were preserved. I then went through the laborious process of compressing virtually every file related to audio components, QT files, and WMV files on the first computer. Finally, i trashed everything and transferred the components from the second computer. Et voila, after restarting, there was the playhead and other functions on my first computer again ---- and i am now able once again to save clips from the so-called 'pure stream' of the URL given eaerlier in this thread. So, indeed, there is some kind of configuration bug that is very difficult to eliminate except by an extreme measure like this. (Re-installing Flip4Mac and QuickTime didn't resolve the problem.
Good Luck with your own computer ---- but then perhaps you don't care whether you can save clips from a 'pure stream' ..... I really wish Apple would document this and resolve it, so people don't think it's something natural and inevitable. And that they would come up with a simpler solution!