Quicktime not playing any of my movies

i've run software update recently and now Quicktime won't play any of my movies (that used to work just fine...). Now it opens fine, but if i try to open a movie (avi, mpeg4, whatever...) it just "beach balls" and i have to Force Quit (it shows not responding...). Does anyone know how i can fix this? it's so annoying!

There may be an encoding issue with the files. Can you play them if you download the VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362
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