Quicktime 7.1.6 broke my iMovieHD?!?

I applied the Quicktime 7.1.6 update a few days ago and ran into a weird problem with iMovieHD. I can build a movie okay and play it but, as soon as I click the "chapters" button to edit my movie, the video stops playing. The sound is fine but whatever frame happened to be displaying when I hit "chapters" is the only one that will show, no matter how I move the scrubber. If I save and reopen, it's fine, even showing the chapter marker I'd last entered. However, as soon as I hit "chapters" again, it stops playing again.
I've done the usual things with permissions and plists and nothing helped. The QT update was the only thing that changed between imovie working and failing.
I signed on as a different user and had the same problem, so it's not a local setting. I then booted off a different disc with only vanilla OSx 10.4.9 on it, WITHOUT the QT update. I ran imovie from my normal drive and was able to edit the previously-failing movie just fine. That seems to eliminate the file, application and everything but the QT update from the equation.
And then, being the ex-software-geek I am, I applied the QT 7.1.6 update to that alternate system and tried imovie again. As I'd expected, it failed just as before.
So...any ideas? Thanks.
Meanwhile, how do I remove QT 7.1.6 from my main system so I can work from there? Apparently it's not safe to just delete everything that looks like a QT-related file and then apply the 7.1.5 updater. (Heh....)

I have never tried this, but...
How to downgrade QT?
Solution
This is how you can downgrade QuickTime 7.1.6 to version 7.1.5:
1. Download Quicktime 7.1.5 installer:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime715formac.html
2. Mount the installer package. This is very important.
3. Download and install Pacifist from this location:
http://www.charlessoft.com/
4. Run Pacifist. In its dialog press the "Open Package" button. Browse for the .PKG file in the mounted package. In the appearing list Right Click on the .PKG and from the context menu choose "Install To Default Location". Please note that if you mistakenly select the unmounted .DMG file into Pacifist instead of the PKG, there will be an installation but without an effect.
5. Check in the "User Administrator Privileges" checkbox. Press Install.
6. When asked tell the installer to replace the already existing files. Do this with all the files.
7. When the install process is finished restart the computer.
8. Run the QuickTime 7.1.5 installer package again WITHOUT Pacifist and let it install the files again.
9. Restart the computer
Sue

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