Problem wit Quicktime - movies seem to need to load to watch

Been using Quicktime for years and never had a problem.
All of a sudden when I load a movie, around the progress bar that shows you where you are in the film there is a dotted line, which was never there before. In the past, I could simply advance the player to any point in the film I wanted. Now the film has to load completely before I can navigate the film, which can take a significant amount of time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. After years of use, I'm completely confounded and can't seem to find any posts about this.
Thanks in advance,
Jason

David:
It just may be server slowness as they all loaded for me rather quickly today except for the original of the hair massage. It took a little big to finish loading. Great site! I particularly like Freefall.
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Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
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Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-08-17 18:12:37
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-08-30 17:05:26
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvpp
Codec ID/Hint                    : DVCPRO
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 703 pixels
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Height                           : 576 pixels
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Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
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Codec ID                         : qt
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Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-09-24 19:59:53
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-09-24 20:01:56
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TIM                             : 00:00:00:00
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
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ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvcp
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
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Width                            : 720 pixels
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Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio    : 4:3
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Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
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