Quicktime is eating up my harddrive space

Hi,
I recently discovered that the space on my harddrive is shrinking. I have a partitioned drive as most do I assume and the first partition is for Windows, programs etc. Any media an so on are on other partitions. The problem sits in the first partition for programs. I have located the problem and it seems to be a folder with the following path that has more than 15 gig of QTCH files in it.
Local drive > User > AppData > Locallow > Apple Computer > Quicktime > Downloads
Following this there are a number of folders named as 00, 01, 02 so on. So I have a range of questions if anyone can be kind of enough to help. What is this? Why has it grown to this proportion? Can I delete it? Will it grow back? Does it have to do with a setup in Quicktime?
I predominantly use Quicktime watching movie trailers on apple.com. I suspect that it has to do with that since I don't use Quicktime for anything else than that.
Thanks

If you open the QT control panel and click on the Advanced tab you'll see Download Cache. You can click on Empty Cache to remove them and yes they will grow back. You could try setting the Download Cache, Size: It can be set to 0 MB, so you might want to experiment with that. I forget what they are. I believe just a Temp file that gets created, as does in Windows C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temp and Temporary Internet Files

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