My mac not using inactive memory

Hello,
I have a MacBook Pro, early 2011 version 10.6.8 / 2GHz Intel Core i7.
I had 4GB RAM originally but upgraded to 8GB.
I started having heat-up / fan issue about 3 months ago and brought my mac to apple store but it didn't solve any problem, so I tried upgrading the RAM. (My mac would heat-up and fan goes crazy much more often than before) It still didn't solve the problem. I have ADOBE products and use them often. 4GB to 8GB upgrade didn't make much difference.
I am kind of giving up with this issue, and am trying not to care... Today, I opened my mac, opened ADOBE Bridge and FireFox. When I was using ADOBE Bridge, the fan was going crazy, so I opened up the activity monitor and realized "INACTIVE" memory is very high and there was only like 10MB of free memory. From my understanding, I thought whenever more free space is needed, "INACTIVE" memory will be used, but my mac seems like it does not want to use the "INACTIVE" memory. Even after completely closing both ADOBE Bridge and FireFox by selecting QUIT, the "INACTIVE" memory is still over 5GB. All I did after opening my mac (not from sleep mode, but it was shut down before opening) was using ADOBE Bridge and FireFox. I closed both of the applications and the "INACTIVE" memory is still very high. Could anybody explain why this is happening and if this is normal? I attached a screenshot of the activity monitor I made when I was only using FireFox after quitting ADOBE Bridge. Thanks for your help!

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Some older video and software still requires an older version of QuickTime (version 7) that isn't included with Mountain Lion. It can, however, be downloaded and installed here.
Installing QuickTime Player 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3678
A Mac OS X v10.6, OS X Lion, and OS X Mountain Lion-compatible version of QuickTime Player 7 is available for use with older media or with AppleScript-based workflows. QuickTime Player 7 can be used to playback formats such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime Movies, and MIDI files. Also, it supports QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes for access to QuickTime Pro functionality.
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Download QuickTime Player 7 from here.
Double-click "QuickTimePlayer7.6.6_SnowLeopard". Note: This download is compatible with Mac OS X v10.6 or later.
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