Quicktime 7.66 won't run

hey guys. i have a 1st gen iPod touch.
i used to run it fine, one day, iTunes updated and would crash. never got it to work since.
it's driving me crazy not being able to throw new music on my iPod, so i've began experimenting. latest iTunes + quicktime installers producers a crash at startup. no conflicts or malware, this is a recently formatted install of XP Pro SP3. anyways, standalone install of quicktime will not help either.
so i found an old install of QT 7.0.4.0
this one opens and runs great, but iTunes says it is too old, and requires 7.6 to run. HELP ME.
the crash is a normal Windows "send error report" crash.

Let's try checking to see if another program (other than QuickTime itself) has dropped old QuickTime in an unorthodox location on the PC. (One of the commoner symptoms in recent times of that is a "QuickTime has encountered a problem" message where the event type is a BEX.)
First we'll adjust some view settings on the PC.
1. Open My Computer from the desktop or Start menu.
2. In the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab.
4. In the "Advanced settings" pane under "Hidden files and folders" make sure that the "Show hidden files and folders" option is selected, and the "Hide extensions for known file types" option is unchecked.
5. Click OK.
Now in "My Computer" open Local Disk C: (or whichever drive your operating system is installed on).
Open the "Windows" folder.
Open the "System32" folder.
What files or folders can you see in there with QuickTime in the file or folder name? (In a standard installation of QuickTime, you should see precisely two files ... QuickTime.qts and QuickTimeVR.qtx ... and no QuickTime folders whatsoever.)

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