Only Open 1 Movie from Finder?

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I can no longer open more than 1 movie from the Finder. Clicking the first movie opens in QT X, but in order to open a second movie, I have to go to the File menu, open recent. Anyone else with this problem?
YoungTurk

Actually, I did come across this problem myself when I tried to go into an .wmv collection of movie clips. I had notice the change in icon for QT after the Snow Leopard install, but didn't think anything of it. So, today, I came across that and then discovered that during the installation, QT pro 7.6.3, which I purchased, got moved very silently and without any notification, into the Utility folder.
Solution: delete QT 10, which installed with SL, move previous QT version from utility folder back into app's folder. In order for you to be able to click on a .mov, .wmv, or any other file that you would like to open by default with QT, you must re-associate that file type with QT. So, take a representative file from the finder, click on "more info", then associate that file with QT (your version) AND tell the system to open all files of that type with QT.

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