Quicktime player quietly quits: how fix/replace?

Hi,
QuickTime Player application (running on Snow Leopard) is quietly quitting whenever I try to run it (and without playing anything).
It doesn't matter if I double-click it in Applications, or drag a .mp3 or .mov file onto the app in a Finder window, or if I right-click a .mp3 or .mov file and choose "QuickTime Player" ... in all cases, there's no visible sign that QuickTime actually started.
I confirmed, by checking the access date on the program file (well within the .app structure, of course), that attempts to run it *do* touch that file ...
If I use the Terminal and navigate down to /Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/MacOS
and then try to run "QuickTime Player" program, I get:
2012-04-13 16:55:01.348 QuickTime Player[4911:903] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting
(see below)
The "QuickTime Player" folder app is dated Feb, 2012.
BTW, file "QuickTime Player" shows:
   QuickTime Player: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
   QuickTime Player (for architecture x86_64):          Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
   QuickTime Player (for architecture i386):          Mach-O executable i386
which looks fine.
It used to work (a month or two ago?)
I've rebooted.
I've run "Software Update" ... it won't find it or update it.
I've deleted it, then run Software Update ...ditto. (I then restored it via Time Machine.)
I went to the QT download page ... reading between the lines, it appears that QT download is available only Leopard and earlier.
I tried it anyway ... the app won't install, saying "QuickTime X" is already present.
I looked around, and found a version of QuickTime Player in a sub-folder ("Video Stuff") in my Applications folder ...
when run, it reports it's: QuickTime Player 10.0 (128), and the .app folder is dated June 27, 2011.
But it does seem to work, overall!
BTW, if I run this old QT from Terminal (from within the .app folder), I get:
2012-04-13 17:08:34.442 QuickTime Player[5157:903] .sdef warning for argument 'FileType' of command 'save' in suite 'Standard Suite': 'saveable file format' is not a valid type name.
...but it does work.
thanks,
Stan

640 x 480
Widescreen 16:9
These settings are contradictory. Please post a screen capture image of the QT "Inspector" window to confirm what encode matrix setting, PAR display setting, and Scale display settings are actually embedded in your file. Also please confirm whether or not the source material was widescreen and it is 4:3 aspect you wish to correct at this point. If not, then please state the height at which the transcoded file was encoded and the target aspect ratio at which you want files to play in all media players.
Once compressed it plays back in Windows Media Player as 16:9 video.
When played back with Quicktime it is squished into a 4:3 format.
Different players dispay content aspect differently.
Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
QT 7, for instance, displays the file using specific Scale dimensions and if these dimensions are not equivalent to PAR/anamorphic playback settings, then the file can display differently in differently media players. As to fixing the problem, that depends on which setting you are trying to fix and what platform/software is available.

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