Quicktime being slowtime

ok, for the last 22 hours, my computer has been installing quicktime 7.0.3, and has been hung on the "updating environment strings" and the taskmanager is showing qtplugininstaller.exe as the culprit. I have read many of hte threads in here and in the itunes section trying to resolve this issue, using both ccleaner nad windows install cleanup utility, with no success. As it stands, i can launch quicktime, because its hung up, but as soon as a cancel(read kill the install processes, as i cannot cancel from the install shield window itself), it rollsback, and i have no quicktime program, and itunes fails
need help soon, or apple will get a busted nano back

Hi Green-Shoot,
I understand that you are wanting to remove Quicktime as the default player. We would want to edit this option within the "Default Programs" control panel in Windows.
The following article outlines how to make iTunes the default player:
iTunes for Windows: How to make iTunes the default application for music and audio files in Windows Vista and Windows 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3202
Note: To make a different application the default media player, follow these same steps and select the application you want to use. iTunes for Windows can be configured to notify you if iTunes is not the default player for audio files.
Cheers!
Matt M.

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