No Quicktime audio controllers

This will be posted to both the Safari and Quicktime forums. On my G4 dual 1.25 PowerMac with Leopard 10.5.8, none of the Webkit browsers (Safari, Omniweb, iCab, Shiira) will show Quicktime sound controllers on either of my pages http://www.animalhead.com/coyote.html or http://www.animalhead.com/newcoyote.html. (All 3 files on both pages are .wav.) All of the Gecko browsers (Firefox, Camino, SeaMonkey) will show controllers on both. Safari on my VirtualPC will show controllers on both pages. Opera will show controllers for the newcoyote page on both the Mac and PC sides, but not for the coyote page. (coyote uses the embed HTML tag, newcoyote uses the object tag.)
Whereas on my G4-500 PowerMac with the latest Tiger, all of the Webkit browsers show sound controllers on both pages.
I looked at all of the Preferences and Quicktime Preferences items in Quicktime, but cannot see anything that looks turned off / disabled. audio/wav is enabled.
Our web site also has some video Quicktime pages, and they work on both machines.
What should I try next to fix this problem?

This problem was solved by moving the file "VLC Plugin.plugin" from /Library/Internet Plug-Ins to a subfolder "Disabled Plug-Ins" thereof. Get Info on the file yields "VLC Webbrowser Plugin - Version 1.0.0" with creation and mod dates July 15, 2008.

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