Quicktime Only Works with Direct3d Disabled

I mentioned this on the end of another post but I thought I'd give it its own topic in hopes that someone would have a solution for me. Quicktime will play files in the standalone player but when I try to play a mov in a browser (either Firefox or IE) all I get is a second of green and pink lines. Then I get a plugin error which I can't read because it is quickly obscured by the browser crashing.
The only other odd behavior is that when I try to run the update option from QT's preferences, it crashes and gives me the error: An exception occurred while trying to run "Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QuickTime.cpl"" and then crashes. Occasionally I'll get a buffer overrun message instead.
I followed advice elsewhere on this forum and disabled Direct3D and Directdraw support in the advanced preferences. This fixes the crashing but now I've lost the advantages of DirectX and large flies look like crap.
I've tried uninstalling QT many times as well as uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. I've reinstalled DirectX and my gfx drivers (Nvidia 8800 GTS) and this didn't help either. Switching Direct3D back on still causes the crash. Incidentally, I'm running Windowblinds as well though I don't think that has anything to do with it as the problem exists even when I unload it.
Everything was working fine until I (stupidly, perhaps) installed a copy of Quicktime 2.0 so I could play an old Windows game. I believe I've deleted all the 2.0 files now and I've used regcleaner and cccleaner so relevant entries should be wiped out.
Advice? I just want everything working like it was a few weeks ago. And is there an Apple support email for Quicktime? I have Pro so presumably I'm owed a little bit of support. Thanks a lot.
Windows XP Pro
  Windows XP Pro  

Ok I've followed countless random post instructions, uninstalled and reinstalled both iTunes and Quicktime multiple times, cleaned the registry, temp files, documents and settings, program files, etc. and Quicktime 7 still crashes. What in the **** is the deal here? I have to believe that this is a problem with a straightforward solution. Quicktime used to work fine. There are only two possible problems here:
1) Some remnant of an old Quicktime install is screwing me up. This should not be this hard to rectify, there are a finite number of places Quicktime puts files. Is there any folder I haven't checked?
2) Some odd glitch allowed me to successfully run QT7 before but now, for whatever reason, my setup has changed in some way I'm not noticing and its now no longer working. In this case there still must be some solution since the problem is very specific: Works with directx disabled, doesn't with directx enabled.
I sincerely appreciate these forums and everyone who takes the time to read them and help users like me. Still, am I missing some place where I can get a solid official answer from Apple on this? I paid for pro, and that doesn't even get me a support email address?

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