Quicktime is playing up

I've updated both my iTunes and Quicktime today to the most recent of each, but when I try to play films in iTunes, it's still bringing up the message telling me to install Quicktime.
Any helpers?
I have Windows 7.

Many thanks. So that's suggesting something going wrong more on the iTunes side of things.
Let's try an experiment. I'd like to try doing a "Run as administrator" on your iTunes.
Quit iTunes first.
In Computer, open Local Disk C: or whichever drive you have your program files installed on.
If you have a 32-bit version of Windows, open the "Program Files" folder.
If you have a 64-bit version of Windows, Open the "Program files (x86)" folder.
Open the "iTunes" folder.
Right-click on the iTunes.exe file and select "run as administrator".
Try playing some of the content that was not playing before ... does it play without the message?

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