Quicktime completely broken

Hi lads.
I have this problem. A couple of years ago, I installed some program, which somehow destroyed some part of Quicktime. Not that it bothered me then, but now I've bought an iPod, and since iTunes needs Quicktime, I have a spot of trouble.
I've tried uninstalling Quicktime, but that doesn't work. The program says there was some sort of error. I've tried repairing it, or reinstalling Quicktime, using the newest version of the exe.file. Still nothing.
I got this idea, that if I delete EVERYTHING related to Apple and Quicktime, I might be able to install the program again, this time succesful. However, I don't know just what to delete.
Could anyone help me out, either with a solution to my Quicktime problem, or provide a list or something with EVERY file, reg key and suchlike I need to delete?

Okay well I kinda have the same problem.
Being that Windows Movie Maker can't read .mov (the video file I was trying to edit) I installed Quicktime Alternative to import it into WMM. After deleting Quicktime Alternative, I've been having problems with Quicktime. Many of the embedded Quicktime sound files no longer work on the internet (eg. ytmnd.com) and my WinAvi video converter displays an error message saying that the "Quicktime 6.5 Codec" has not been installed or has been installed correctly, but I have the latest version of Quicktime installed.
I tried going into my system32 folder and I could only find those 2 Quicktime files. It seems the only way to get the codec is to install QT-Alternative, which means uninstalling Quicktime for good?

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172       /* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
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Hi,
If AIM contacts have been added to your Google Buddy List then I would login to Google and remove them from there (the iGoogle or GoogleMail web pages will show the Chat option)
Whilst they are still in the List then the Authorization request will probably be resent (In this case it is probably being generated by the method Google are using to add the AIM names as iChat only sends it once).
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The connection Process is not the same and iChat/AIM
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On the iChat to AIM on a PC.
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Comparisons
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Jabber does depend on the server you use and whether that does Transports for you to have text chats with other services.
Instructions for iChat.
Mercury IM is a JAVA version of MSN and still has not got to Audio and Video
Similar for aMSN
Gizmo5 and YakforFree both died...
Skype is Cross Platform but is only 1-1 in Video chat. (cost extra for 3 and 4 way chats)
Yahoo had dropped support for their Mac version now iChat has the Yahoo option (you can still download it - IT being the beta it has been for years).
2:40 PM Saturday; February 11, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Completely broken in Ubuntu: can't access profile

I have a freshly installed Ubuntu 13.04 64bit.
It came with Firefox 20 which was working fine, but was not the latest version.
I ran "sudo apt-get install firefox" and it updated firefox to version 24.
Now Firefox is broken and won't load. It systematically gives the error "Your firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or unaccessible".
Apparently this is known since may:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1181807
I can't believe such a huge bug is still unfixed after months.
What's the workaround?
How do I fix it and get it to work?
By the way, on my older computer with Ubuntu 13.04 32bit, I had Firefox 24 and it was working just fine.

The profile manager doesn't run either. It issues the same error:
"Your firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or unaccessible".
Something definetly IS broken if a profile gets corrupted by merely updating firefox. (especially considering the profile was almost untouched: I had only run firefox a couple of times)
Additionally, the profile manager is almost useless, if it becomes unusable just because one profile is corrupted (even if there was a legitimate reason for the profile being corrupted in the first place).
Ouch!!!
Now I HAVE deleted prifiles.ini (fortunately there was nothing important in my profile, as it was a fresh new unused profile, so wiping it out would not be a problem in this case), but it STILL doesn't work.

Quicktime completely broken

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