QuickTime Pro Export freezes up.  Help!!

I'm trying to export a couple full resolution .mov's to web compatible versions (half-resolution, H.264 Compression, Fast Start). I just upgraded to Pro yesterday (and have QT 7.1.3), and have had several problems...
The movies play back fine when I open them in QTPro. Following the directions in the User's Guide, I go to File>Export. When I click on Options, the Movie Settings dialogue appears. When I move my cursor over the buttons, they light up (like usual in Windows), but if I click them, nothing happens. I cannot toggle the check boxes, and the only thing I can do is change the selection in the "Prepared for Internet Streaming" section. At this point, even clicking "OK" or "Cancel" at the bottom does nothing, and I have to CtrlAltDelete to close QT.
I have also tried skipping the Options button and simply using one of the presets offered by QT in the Save Exported File As dialogue box. I set it to Streaming-Medium and hit Save. At this point the Export Progress box pops up but remains in the "Initializing" state indefinitely until I close it, because it displays no sort of progress in the export whatsoever.
Any idea why QT is freezing up and not allowing me to export?

Hello again
problem is solved. Nothing to do with the MPEG-2 component download. I had moved the QT launch icon from Applications folder to a Video Apps sub folder. All videos could be read OK, but export failed. I moved the QT launch icon back to Applications folder and everything is fine now.
Benoit

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