Problems with Quicktime audio in web browser

Hello.
In December 2007 I designed a web site to promote a musical show I wrote. I included mp3 audio files of some of the songs. I designed the site using Dreamweaver on my Mac.
The site was working perfectly in February, the last time I (and others) checked it, using both Firefox and Safari to test the links. At that time, when I clicked on a link to one of the music files a window would open with the Quicktime big "Q" logo, then the song would play.
I haven't touched the site (no change of code of any sort) since February.
Today when I tried to access the music files the new window opened as usual with the big "Q" logo, but then a white question mark appears, covering the Q logo. Why is that happening?
The music links (still) work perfectly on PCs (I tested it today with IE on Windows), but not on any of the Macs I've tried (I only own Mac computers) with either Firefox or Safari. And on a Mac, if you right-click on one of the links and choose "Save link as ... " you can download the mp3 and it will play using Quicktime or iTunes from my desktop (or any other location) but won't play from the browser.
I'm pretty sure I'm using a newer version of Quicktime now and newer versions of Firefox and Safari (all have been upgraded since February) but there has been no other change to my software configurations on any of my computers.
If anyone can help me, please look at the actual web page. Here's a link to the page in question: (after arriving at the page, click on "The Demo Recording" link and then try any of the song links).
http://deadflamingodancer.com/music.html
A big thank you to anyone who tries to assist me. It's much appreciated.
Don

I had no trouble with your files but the issue could be with your page code (or lack of it).
You use "direct" links instead of page code so the QuickTime browser plug-in may not even be used on some machines.
Your file names include spaces and punctuation that could case troubles:
http://deadflamingodancer.com/audio/08%20Gussie's%20Blues.mp3 as one example.
http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html to help fix the page code. You'll then be linking to a new html file with the proper code to call the QuickTime browser plug-in.
To include non standard file formats and "force" the QuickTime browser plug-in be used you need to use the special qtsrc="blah.mp3" syntax instead of the regular "src" tag. Learn more here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html

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