No Audio from Windows Media Player

I’ve got a problem with Windows Media Player (WMP) on my MacBook Pro so I’m posting in the Tiger forum and the MacBook Pro forum.
Here’s the issue. One day, WMP stopped playing any audio files or audio in video files.
Apple Care was as helpful as they could be supporting an MS product. Here are some symptoms.
- When playing .wmv files (e.g., the sample file MS includes with WMP, I get the message, “This file may not play correctly because it was compressed by using a codec that is not supported.”
- When playing .asf files (e.g., web streams from radio stations, I get the message, “The channel does not support the stream format.”
- It says .mp3 files are not supported.
Other audio programs I use are iTunes, Audio Hijack (a couple of times), and Audacity (once). I have tried deleting plist files from all of these, with no improvement.
I can’t use Flip4Mac because the Intel platforms are not yet supported.
I’m pretty good with this sort of thing, but am now completely stuck.
Is there a file in OSX that will display the application - extension associations so I can see if there are conflicts?
MacBook Pro 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Flip4Mac is now supported on Intel.
Link here
PowerBook G4 550 Mhz   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

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