QuickTime 7.1.6 hogs CPU, sends fans into panic mode

I use QuickTime with Flip4Mac to download streaming audio files in Windows Media (.wma) format. I dutifully upgraded to QT 7.1.6 when it came out (ca. May), and suddenly found my MacBook Pro's fans coming on. I opened Activity Monitor and QuickTime was eating up the CPU. It started small, but gradually built up, until at about 9MB of a 27MB file QT was using over 99% of the CPU, and the computer's fans were in high gear.
I laboriously downgraded to QT 7.1.5, and the problem was solved. I thought it might have been something else in my System setup, which was getting funky; so when I upgraded my hard disk last night I did a complete fresh install of 10.4.9 etc., including QuickTime 7.1.6 (and the latest Flip4Mac). Now I find QuickTime doing it again; at 11MB downloaded of a 27MB file it's steadily hogging 98-99+% of CPU, running the fans at full speed, and making some other functions sluggish.
Anyone else run into this behavior? Any solutions -- any way to tell QuickTime it doesn't have to run in desperation mode? It used to do just fine before 7.1.6; I never noticed how much CPU it was using, but it never triggered the fans. I really hate when the fans run like this; it feels like the computer's being overdriven.
BTW, I also sometimes use an iBook G4 1GHz, running 10.3.9 & QuickTime 7.1.3, to do the same downloading chore, and it has no problem. It's really not hard work -- at least for any version of QT before 7.1.6.
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I encountered a kernal panic for CPU 0) unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook 5,2")
I believe that driver is munged on the HD, or the HD is munged, seen several just like that on 2.5" drives, never on a 3.5"er btw.
If you can copy/retrieve your important data, I think you need to Zero the internal HD & start over, though if Permissions get repaired on it, you might try a reinstall of the latest big Combo Update... 2nd an Archive & install.

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