Quicktime blues

My Quicktime is barely working. Too many codecs? Too few? I dunno. Please advise what to dump/to keep/to add. Wish to have full functionality to view any mov/vid format. Currently have: OS 10.4.10, Quicktime Pro 7.2.
These are my current codecs:
Perian.component
DivX Pro™ 5.component
DivX® MP3 Encoder.component
FLV.component
AC3MovieImport.component
x264Encoder.component
SheerVideo™ HD Pro Xu.qtx
avc1Decoder.component
mp4vEncoder.component
PSIKeyMac.shlb
mp4vDecoder.component
lame 3.92.shlb
TSCC.component
Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Studio components
Flip4Mac Web Plugins
These I have just removed from HD/lib/quick file,
(but still have on hand in case they have any value):
AviImporter-r7 (ppc).component
msmpeg4v2.component
XVIDDelegate
3ivx D4 PR2 for OSX
DivX Decoder.component
PopwireWMV-9Import.component
XviD_Codec v0.5.1.component
XviD_Codec-r58 (ppc).component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
DivX Encoder.component
Theora
msmpeg4v1.component
OggImport
PopwireWMV-9Export.component
And these are my current media players
QT Pro 7.2.
VLC
RealPlayer
MPlayer
DivX
FlashPlayer 9
WMV
Flip4mac
Thank you for any help.

This is the setup you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything:
Assuming you already run OS 10.4.9 or above and have Quicktime 7.2, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install (or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:
RealPlayer from http://uk.real.com/player/
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
Adobe FlashPlayer from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).
In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).
Now repair permissions and restart.
The world should now be your oyster!
You should also have the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.

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