No help in QuickTime

The links in "QuickTime Player Help" no longer work. Is there anything I can do to get them working again? I have QuickTime Pro 7.6.6.
thanks,
Scott

I have the same problem on Leopard 10.5.8 with the help content of QuickTime Pro 7.6.4. The links of the main help page don't work and when I search something (for example "cut") I find a result but if I click on Show, nothing happens and if I click twice on the article title, I return to the main page.
I tried to repair the permissions, I re-installed Quicktime, I installed the combo 10.5.8, I deleted all the help, helpviewer, quicktime preferences (in the User Library and in the Main Library), I tried with a new user (same problem), I deleted the caches (according to an Apple support document for older systems). Not in that order...
The Mac help works normally.
On my Tiger the help for Quicktime (last version, free) works normally.
Is that a bug?
Message was edited by: Patrizia Franchini

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