Quicktime Pro hosed iTunes

I'm getting very very aggravated.
Had QT installed w/ iTunes. Upgraded (purchased) QT to Pro and now iTunes is completed hosed. I uninstalled iTunes, rebooted, reinstalled and am still having the problem. Info:
QT 7 Pro
iTunes 8 (latest release)
Windows XP Pro SP3
Error in Event Viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 5/7/2009
Time: 12:29:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: HOUSTN28
Description:
Faulting application itunes.exe, version 8.1.1.10, faulting module quicktime.qts, version 7.60.92.0, fault address 0x0019510c.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 69 74 75 ure itu
0018: 6e 65 73 2e 65 78 65 20 nes.exe
0020: 38 2e 31 2e 31 2e 31 30 8.1.1.10
0028: 20 69 6e 20 71 75 69 63 in quic
0030: 6b 74 69 6d 65 2e 71 74 ktime.qt
0038: 73 20 37 2e 36 30 2e 39 s 7.60.9
0040: 32 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 2.0 at o
0048: 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 30 ffset 00
0050: 31 39 35 31 30 63 0d 0a 19510c..
Can someone shed some light on this? (preferably before my wife gets home and kills me)
Thanks in advance,
the monkey

Right click/CTRL-click the mov file and tell it to play in Quicktime vs. iTunes. That's all you have to do.
In iTunes if you CTRL/right click on the file and tell it to show file , the finder will open to where iTunes has put the mov file and you can copy it to the desktop so you can see it there or to movies etc., in your home folder.

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