Quicktime symbol on internet & won't run movies

Hi
I have posted this question on another discussion board but i am not sure if it was the right one so i thought i would try this one as well
I am a complete novice on how my laptop works, which is normally fine but for some reason when i go onto the internet i seem to get a lot of quicktime symbols with question marks appear. I also am unable to view web-movies e.g. if i am on yahoo and it says click to view movie all that happens is that the image appears and says Loading. i am not sure if these problems are related. A few months ago i had a problem on rightmoves with it keep quitting on me but this i have corrected by continually going to system preferences and un ticking java and java script. Not sure if these are related to this new problem. Any help would be appreciated.
sue

As Limnos says, modern multimedia on the internet is a bit unforgiving for older OS's, but I find
Realplayer Gold works well on 10.3.9.
http://www.real.com.au/mac/?lang=en&loc=au
You will need to find the older version for OS X 10.3, buried here under
system requirements
previous player version
then locate the one for Mac OSX
then clicking on
RealPlayer 10 for Mac OSX
will start the download.

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