Quicktime problem now fixed for me....

Hi everyone,
like a lot of people here I was having a very frustrating time with Quicktime since the upgrade and also with firefox as well as safari.
I'd been following most peoples' suggestions as to how to go about fixing it with no joy, but I had another bash on Saturday with one minor difference and it's been fine since then.
I went into Users / Library / Prefs and removed the relevant .plist as before.
I then went into System Preferences ->Quicktime -> Advanced -> MIME Settings -> MIscellaneous & unchecked Flash Media and hit OK.
But back at the main QT Preferences page, *I this time also unchecked "Enable Flash."*.
Did a repair permissions and restarted my browsers and they have both been working fine since then.
As I say, have been following the general suggestions here, just this time also unchecked +Enable Flash+.
Hope this helps...

That took 7 months to sort out? Jesus!

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During song/playlist/content (not software update or restore) updating function one of two things would happen:
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- disconnected power cable from G4 (for laptops I would guess that the battery would need to be removed, not sure if that causes any other problems though, please research)and let sit for about 30 minutes.
- reconnected all cables and restarted computer. Ports should be reset at that point
- I took the added measure to restart my computer once with nothing attached to USB and firewire ports and then powering down with front panel button before connecting cables and proceding with final restart.
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This worked perfectly for me!!!
SOMEBODY PLEASE TAG THIS POST!!!
i have had the problem that everyone has posted about (i.e. - updated iTunes/iPod software and had the update/freeze problem, tried all solutions, to no avail, and was pretty much screwed.)
JUST DO EXACTLY WHAT HE SAYS TO DO (powermac g5, by the way):
1) power down the computer
2) unplug EVERYTHING (usb, firewire, power, monitor, etc.)
3) leave unplugged for 30 minutes
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10) take a sigh of relief!
you are seriously a godsend...only one thing...I BOUGHT A NEW ONE ALREADY!!! i literally bought it the day that you posted this solution. After a month and a half of trying to fix this problem, i finally gave up and bought a 20GB iPod Photo with applecare...cost me about $380.
no matter, i think i'm gonna sell my "older" ipod to my mom or dad. they'll use it doing whatever they do. plus, that way, if there's any problem, i can fix it for them without feeling bad about screwing over some stranger.
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