Question Mark in Quicktime icon

When I try to play a clip in Quicktime, all I get is a large question mark. Can anyone help?
Thanks...
Songstan

hello i ma having this same problem...
at first i would just restart, then it got more often, finally it would not load at all...
i have backup copy of my hd on a partition and it works ok there, at least it loads...
i tried disk repair and it indicated "unable to repair volume"...
i just went through this on another hard drive that i finally had to just replace...
it seems that quick time is actully destroying another hard disk...
it was so bad on my other hard drive that i would re copy the startup disk from dvd...
then it would crash after awhile saying b-tree needing repair...
this is my delema, i have an older copy of os X 10.4, then to upgrade to quicktime pro i would up grade os x to 10.4.11 the most current...
now when the os crashes it seems that i dont have the right disk utility to repair any of the damage...
do i need a 10.4.11 dvd to repair my hd?
is there a patch or upgrade to my disk utility that can repair my hd...
i have a powerbook g4 867 with 1 gig ram,40 gig hd...
thanks

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