No more H.264 or MPEG-4 recordings in Quicktime 7.3.1?

I'm really confused and a little frustrated. After upgrading to Leopard, I hadn't used Quicktime much, but recently, I wanted to make some video recordings, and much to my surprise, it would not record. Everytime I stopped the recording, I got the error message:
Recording Filed because no data was received. Make sure that the media input source is turned on an playing.
According to another post I saw, the solution to this was to set the recording quality to device native, which apparently is the YUV422 codec, Interger (Little Endian). The problem with this is that it's raw video and huge! A 2:26 video is taking up 1.34 gig on my HD. Now, I can convert it, of course, but what happened to natively recording in web-friendly formats? Is there a fix for this besides just using Photobooth (no sound) or alternate programs?
Also, this is on a Macbook 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, not the B&W listed in my system signature.
Message was edited by: Lezard Valeth1

Nope. Wasn't aware that you could do that with Photobooth. I'm not seeing an option which allows me to set audio in Photobooth in 10.5.1, all Apple Software up to date (according to software update).
I've been paging around for ~ the last hour or so and tried some of the other mentioned solutions, such as testing in a difference account, checking for incompatible codecs and what not. I removed all excess codecs and tried QTP in another admin account and a non-admin account. No difference. I've also don't have any applications which reportedly don't play well with QTP, such as Final Cut Pro and such.
Heh, guess I have two problems now, what with Photobooth.

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