Quicktime playback bright and gray, compared to FCP or After Effects

OK, this is so confusing, I have been working with Quicktime for years but I can't seem to resolve this issue:
I bought a MacPro (Xeon) and for some reason all the clips I create in Final Cut Pro or After Effects don't play back correctly in Quicktime. That is, unless I use the 'Animation' codec, then they play fine. But the strange thing is, whether I use DVCPRO HD, DV, or H.264, they all play back too bright and gray in Quicktime. But when I import that same file into either FCP or After Effects it looks like the original composition.
SO- the color is there, it just doesn't play back properly in Quicktime. The truly strange thing is that I tested the same clips on my other Intel and my G5 and the clips play back fine on those. After reinstalling Quicktime the same issue persists on my Mac Pro.
Any ideas why this might be happening??
Thanks in advance to the wizard who can help me clear this up!
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This works out fairly well. I'll give you two options on one stage of it:
1. Go to the first frame of your troublesome movie, Command-B to Select None, then do a Copy.
2. Open Preview.app, Command-N to make a new document that looks a lot like that frame you just copied. Once you see it, do a Copy.
3.1. In QuickTime Player, Command-N and Command-V to make a single frame movie of that image.
3.2. A different way, do a Save from Preview, to make a JPEG. Open that JPEG in QuickTime Player, Option-Right Arrow to get to the end.
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Do a Save As, Self Contained, and you should have a movie where the first frame gets repeated, and the movie is forced into RGB mode.

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