Quicktime Pro, am I entitled to it?

I use Footlights for all of my movie playback and I absolutely hate it. I have Quicktime, but refuse to buy Quicktime Pro simply for full screen playback. It seems a little stupid to me, I have iLife and doesn't iMovie do everything that Quicktime Pro does?
Shouldn't Quicktime Pro come with iLife, I can't figure out how to unlock the Pro features. If not, is there a way to make Footlights my default movie player for all movie files?

I use Footlights for all of my movie playback and I absolutely hate it. I have Quicktime, but refuse to buy Quicktime Pro simply for full screen playback.I find it strange that you use a program you hate and then complain about it. Must admit that I haven't tried Footlights since I use iTunes as my Multimedia, iPod and, hopefully in Q1 of 2007, an "iTV" manager application and it already offers full screen playback.
It seems a little stupid to me, I have iLife and doesn't iMovie do everything that Quicktime Pro does?Yes, that is true. However, I do use QT Pro for other purposes such as elementary editing where a "full blown" editor is a waste of time or I don't care to perform multiple conversions through the DV format in order to use frame level editors.
Shouldn't Quicktime Pro come with iLife, I can't figure out how to unlock the Pro features.Let's not give Apple any ideas here. They may just turn around and exclude the QT Player from the System software and make you buy it a a part of iLife every year.
If not, is there a way to make Footlights my default movie player for all movie files?As I indicated, I have not used Flootlights so I don't know how its player is integrated into the application. But yes, you can set Foolights to be the "Open With..." application by highlighting the various movie file types and opening them with the Finder "Get Info" to reset their opening application default for all files of that type. Whether or not this will open the file in Footlights' player module is something you will have to determine then post back here.
EDITED: Once again, you were just too fast for me, Kirk.

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