Media stopped playing in CS4 Premiere Pro 4.2.1

After rendering a video, the media could not be played in all windows of Premiere Pro 4.2.1. I have edited a lot of videos with this set up.
I reinstalled premiere, did not work.
I reinstalled Quicktime it worked once then stopped again.
I reinstalled Quicktime but this time it did not work at all.
I always update all my software and premiere worked fine. NO UPDATES before the incident, could it be a virus?
OS: X 10.5.8
Processor 2.4Ghz
Mem 2G
Disk space: plenty
Thank you,
Francis

This post is still not fixed.
After installing more RAMs it seemed that the problem was solved. Then Premiere stopped again playing media files.
I reinstalled Premiere and its updates and it works for 2 days. The third day, again, Premiere stopped playing media files.
I removed Quicktime to see if it was a problem of codex. When I tried to reinstall the new version of Quictime, the installation went fine then when I restart the computer, no Quicktime.app was visible on the computer.
I removed QT, restarted, but still QT.app still not visible via a search.
However, After I reinstalled Premiere, premiere worked for a day or two (despite not seeing QT) then stopped working again.
I tried AfterFX, it works.
If I try to play a file with QT "using ctrl click" then open with QT, QT is not visible.
At this point, I do not know what to do, except reinstalling my computer from scratch, one program at the time to make sure I do not have any other file that is conflicting with Premiere and QT.

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