Quicktime 7.2 playback of 1080P *****!!

First of all my computer is more then cable of playing 1080P trailers.
Since installing Quicktime version 7.2 I am getting very bad playback of 1080P! Very bad frames.
On the same computer I did not have any playback problems with 1080P when using the last build Quicktime 7.1
So what changed in this new version? Apple please fix this.
My computer is an Intel Core 2 Duo 6700, 2GB of Memory, 500GB Hard Drive and Windows Vista 32Bit.

I ended up just re-installing Quicktime. Playback improved greatly, 1080p quick times are now have a passable frame rate but they still do drop frames, so the problem isn't completely fixed. There has got to be a solution to this somewhere...
Actually, just watched a 1080p trailer from apple (the Nines, and Beowulf), it played fine. The 1080p trailer from Yahoo! Movies (the Mist), still drops frames, or chugs. Could be Yahoo's problem.

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