Opening video files with Quicktime X

I upgraded to Snow Leopard with Quicktime X. When I first did that, most video files I clicked on still opened with my old version of Quicktime (7?) rather than Quicktime X. So, I deleted my old version of Quicktime, thinking that would force Quicktime X to open the files. Wrong. Now when I click on a video file, nothing happens. I can open the file using Quicktime X, but I have to open Quicktime X first, then find the file I want to open in the Finder. Surely I should be able to simply click on the file first and have Quicktime X open it, no? (E.g., if I click on a video in iPhoto, nothing happens. But if I open QT X first, I can then use QT X to open the same file and play the video.) Help?

That should work. Also, just to add. I would not necessarily delete quicktime 7 especially if you had upgraded to pro. If you did then you may note that Snow leopard installer moved 7 to utilities. I have found that QT7 can sometimes play movies when QT X can't - it has to do with the fact that QT 7 and QT 10 don't have identical sets of codecs (at least that what those guys in the know tell me). So if you still have access to it keep it you can then use it if the later QT version can't play something. It won't interfere with anything you just have to designate if you want a particular file or type of file to be always opened by QT 7 as opposed to QT X which is the default app

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