Quicktime symbol with a question mark????

i cant view anything that is supported by quicktime on the web including simple animations. in everythings place that used to be a movie, etc is now the quicktime symbol with a questiion mark in it. what should i do?

The problem, according to Apple Techs I spoke to today, is Safari, not QuickTime:
I created a podcast in GarageBand back in October 2006 and published it to iTunes as well as my .Mac site via iWeb. All worked fine until a few months ago when I started getting the blue QuickTime 'Q' and a question mark each time I tried to download it from the web site. QuickTime error message said I needed the latest update - which I already had. I tried accessing it from a Mac in an Apple Store and got the same message. But several friends - PC users - told me they had no problem downloading the QuickTime video from my web site. And other Mac users had no problems downloading the podcast from iTunes. I asked an associate in the Apple Store and he downloaded Firefox on to one of their Macs and the QuickTime video opened with no problem from the web site. The original file on my Mac opened up fine when I opened it in QuickTime independently of Safari.
I called Apple Tech Support and they got the same results when opening from various sources. The problem "appears to be Codec related but in Safari recognizing the plugin."
Apple called back today (07/09/07) and told me today the problem has been recognized by Engineering and they are working on an update for Safari to fix the problem.
Robert Leedy
My info:
GarageBand version: 3.04
iWeb version: 1.12
Safari Version: 2.04
Mac OS X 10.4.10, 10.4.9
QuickTime Pro 7.1.6
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

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