Media Skins broken in Windows QT

I have a neat media skin I built. Works great on QT 6 or 7 on the Mac.
On windows, I have noticed two bugs.
1) Click on the drag region and the player forground jumps and loses the correct mapping betwen the drag and foreground region.
2) the button images have a white pixel area neat the right hand side / and or are not aligned right after the above #1 occurs.
3) The repaint of the video window if you drag the media player leaves garbage (old pixels) on occasion
All in all, it makes skins unusable for Windows.... Hopefully it will be fixed quickly...as of 7.0.4 it's broken, I may have to go to WMP (yuck) to deliver functionality on windows if this is not addressed...
has anbody seen this?
Windows 2000 QT

Welcome to the discussions, QTime Dev.
I've seen problems with skins as well, with my PSP skin (the other skin doesn't have as serious of a problem).
http://homepage.mac.com/makentosh/QTITest
I've got my fingers crossed for a 7.1...someday

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