Quicktime has ruined Safari!

I've noticed that lots of people are having problems with the latest version of Quicktime. I too installed this via the Software Update option only yesterday and since then it has ruined any sites that I view with Safari, my prefered browser, but strangely not with Mozilla. I seem to get a lot of that irritating "Q" logo with a question mark super-imposed over it. Can anybody help please?

Please use the "Search Discussions" feature (upper right of this page) to learn how to fix your install of QuickTime.
Since QuickTime works as it should in a different browser proves nothing is wrong with it. Only your settings need some adjustments.

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I have partially solved my problem. I had software installed for a Twelve South BassJump (it improves the sound of your laptop speakers). When I removed that software, I was able to play videos on Apple's website in Safari. The company has beta software available from their website that is supposed to be Lion compatible but when I installed that the problem returned. But even with that software removed I still cannot watch videos on some sites such as Other World Computing.
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