Quicktime RAID Intel Vista Failed

I've noticed a dozen posts regarding this issue. Intel says it's Quicktime causing the problem. How do we contact Quicktime Support to hear their side of the story. This is a major problem. Unsuspecting users can repeatedly lose data from these RAID failures caused by Quicktime.

There is a problem with RAID volumes and QuickTime and iTunes on Windows Vista - using Intel chipset. That isn't in contention.
As for what triggers it or not, hum... it's no fun if it affects you and your system. WHY is it that Quicktime and iTunes are an issue? is it related to choppy performance when playing back content from some (slower) boot drives?
Safari 3 was made available when it was still "alpha" which I think was too early and tarnished it some (I could see only if it was actually needed for iPhone, but that begs more questions).
+If you look in the Vista event viewer you will find event id 9 errors with a source of iastor, which is the intel raid driver. This is the source of the quicktime slowdown. If you leave quicktime running long enough it will fail both drives of a raid 1 array and Vista will crash.+
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=86131
Intel RAID
QuickTime Vista RAID Havoc
As someone who runs Vista x64, and has all my media and data files on a RAID, I don't take things like this lightly. (I also will not be installing Quicktime or iTunes until x64 support looks better.)
UPDATE: So it looks like some of these issues could be related to using an Intel RAID array and that there could be fixes coming with the famous Vista Service Pack 1.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/hadders/2273
Intel release notes for its Intel Matrix Storage Manager version 7.0.0.1020 that acknowledge a known problem with using iTunes and Quicktime to play video.
The only thing I could find on Apple was the article
iTunes Video Playback Performance
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305392
which touches on QuckTime and DirectX and Direct3D.
Latest Cnet forum fix
Intel's Fix for Vista
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      Volumes:          R1V1
      Status:          Viable (Good)
    Volumes:
    R1V1:
      BSD Name:          disk1
      Capacity:          599.73 GB (599,730,946,048 bytes)
      Read Command Size:          2 MB
      Read Ahead Margin:          16 MB
      RAID Set:          RS1
      Status:
      Degraded:          No
      Inited:          Yes
      In Transition:          No
      Viable:          Yes
    Vol-R0-3:
      BSD Name:          disk2
      Capacity:          299.8 GB (299,798,364,160 bytes)
      Read Command Size:          2 MB
      Read Ahead Margin:          16 MB
      RAID Set:          R0-3
      Status:
      Degraded:          No
      Inited:          Yes
      In Transition:          No
      Viable:          Yes
    Hardware Overview:
      Model Name:          Mac Pro
      Model Identifier:          MacPro3,1
      Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
      Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
      Number Of Processors:          2
      Total Number Of Cores:          8
      L2 Cache (per processor):          12 MB
      Memory:          8 GB
      Bus Speed:          1.6 GHz
      Boot ROM Version:          MP31.006C.B05

    The RAID card battery backs up the memory buffers on the card. These are needed for calculating the checksum blocks used in RAID 5 and similar schemes.
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