QuickTime 7.0.4 out of sync

I've got a PowerMac G5, dual 1.8 with 4 gigabytes of RAM, virtually every video file I play will go out of audio/video sync. This will occur using the QuickTime 7.0.4 player or, if it's a video file, in iTunes. Doesn't matter if it's video using Flip4Mac on the CNN website (for example) or a video from the iTunes Music Store or something I've acquired elsewhere, virtually everything will go out of video/audio sync...
I can stop and start the video and it will be in sync for a bit, but will eventually go back out of sync
Any ideas?
Thanks

Well, it doesn't really matter what I think, I suppose.. In the end, I wasn't able to play 5. sound through Quicktime + Creative hardware for nearly a year. That's really pathetic. Someone at Creative or someone at Apple dropped the ball... and the consumer paid for it. I actually spent a chunk of change upgrading my soundcard to an X-Fi, thinking it would fix the Quicktime issue.
I contacted Creative via technical support, begging them to look into the issue and talk to Apple to get it resolved, but I essentially got a "that's third party software, and we can't do anything about it" answer. Hah, that's funny. I guess they're expecting no-one to use their soundcard? You'd think they'd be anxious to hear about applications that don't work 00% with their hardware.
On the other hand, on contacting Apple's technical support, I actually was able to e-mail a Quicktime engineer back/forth... and he stated that they had found the cause of the bug and it would be fixed in the (now released) new version. That's when he also told me it was due to something specific with Creative's drivers/hardware. Who knows if he's lying/exagerrating/whatever. All I know is that my Creative soundcards did not work in 5., while all other soundcards I had laying around did..
Anyhow, it's fixed now, so I'm a happy camper.

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