Quicktime menu visible when automatically playing movie at startup

I am setting up a quicktime movie to automatically play full screen at startup. (It's for a video installation).
My problem is that the mouse (which I disconnected) is registering in the top left corner (which I believe is the mac default). This makes my quicktime menu visible. I don't want to see the menu, I want only to see my movie playing full screen.
Is there a way to hide the quicktime menu? Or reposition the mouse (w/o actaully moving it manually).
Thanks for any insight anyone might have!
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) Quicktime Pro 7.1.5
G5 Quad

You're going to love this:
http://osaxen.com/files/extrasuites1.1.html
It's a background application that can do a lot of AppleScript things, one of which is to move the mouse. The script it uses for doing that reads:
tell application "Extra Suites"
ES move mouse {100, 100}
end tell
Extra Suites doesn't have to be running when you first run the script, so just add those lines to your startup AppleScript.
ps. it's free to try, $10 to register, which you'll want to do to avoid the license dialog sitting on top of your movie!

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