Quicktime 7.6 and Snapz Pro X

I'm running an older version of Snapz Pro X on my older iMac (flat-screen, domed) under Tiger 10.4.11. I have and paid for the newer Snapz Pro X on my white Macbook purchased this Summer, running Leopard (hence my profile info here), but don't much like how the newer Snapz Pro X works (too many highly annoying distracting squiggly graphs and such).
Since updating to Quicktime 7.6, I can no longer take screenshots of a paused Quicktime movie with Snapz Pro X. The Snapz Pro X intro screen pops up (although it is in my start-up items and already loaded), and then nothing happens. It works fine taking screenshots of anything else UNTIL I try taking a screenshot of a Quicktime movie, then Snapz Pro X is inoperable for everything until I restart.
I've repaired permissions, repaired disk, ran Cache Out X, OnyX, DiskWarrior, etc. etc. etc., even tried removing Snapz Pro X from my start-up items. Same behavior as above.
Any ideas?
I know--someone will say to post this on the Snapz Pro X forum, but the likely answer there will be to use the newer version, and I just plain don't care for the newer version. And who knows, it may have the same problems with the Quicktime 7.6 update (which I haven't yet updated on my white Intel Leopard Macbook).
So I guess my real question is, if no one has a possible fix--I have my drive cloned to a bootable external drive, which still has Quicktime 10.5.5. How can I get it back to my main computer? Just drag it? What do I drag? Should I delete any Quicktime-related file(s) on my main computer before dragging it over?
Thanks in advance.

You may want to try out Screenshot Plus widget by Steven Chaitoff for a temporary workaround.
We longer use Snapz Pro X.

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