Quicktime and other media players

On my girlfriends computer, when I download itunes with Quicktime on it her son cannot access multimedia that uses other media players. If we remove Quicktime, the problem goes away. We tried enable and disable access in Windows but that does not work. We need a way to install Quicktime so as not to interfere with other media players.
I dont like having to uninstall and re-install quicktime every time we want to use i-tunes. PLEASE HELP!

Thanks for your reply, Jim. I admit I'm not sure exactly what those classifications mean, but looking at all the file specs I could it was the only piece of info that didn't match.
I think something is getting disrupted during the import (possibly some strange bug in PP), because as I've said the original file exported with quicktime works fine. So I need to find a program or converter that won't alter my file at all upon import (like quicktime!!! ugh), but will give me numerous audio export options so that it's compatible with PP.
I vaguely remember someone saying to keep both the newest version of Quicktime and Quicktime 7 (??) on your computer because it had more detailed export options. Does anyone know anything else about this?
I'm afraid I can't do this project in iMovie, so I will need to get the file into PP. Maybe I'll try using iMovie just for the export options, any thoughts?
Thanks again.

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