Quicktime Player not playing files off desktop

5K iMac
OSX 10.10.1
This is a video editing machine that has AJA Kona 3G drivers and codecs installed.
FCP X, FCP 7, and Premiere Pro have been installed on it.
FCP X has been removed using the Digital Rebellion FCS remover utility.
Trying to get Premiere to be more stable, I removed unneeded codecs from:
/Library/QuickTime
At the moment I've uninstalled and reinstalled everything (FCP 7, Premiere, Kona 3G Drivers), and all those codecs are back in the /Library/QuickTime folder.
ProRes and H.264 .movs are playing fine in the Applications and in Quicklook.
But when I right click on file and open with Quicktime Player, the app opens and shows up in the dock, but the file does not open.
If I try "file -> open file" from the Quicktime app, I select a bog standard H.264, the app crashes.
If I open Quicktime and do a screen recording or movie capture, it works. I can close out and open that movie capture in Quicktime player.
I installed Quicktime 7 and it is working fine.
Mpeg Streamclip can play all those files back.
Any ideas on troubleshooting, or maybe just resetting Quicktime player back to a default state?

Never mind. After I had uninstalled, reinstalled, updated everything...
it still needed one more reboot. Then it worked again.

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