QuickTime Thumbnail Icon Previews?

Is there any way to get automatic thumbnail icon previews for QuickTime files in Windows? You get them automatically for MPEG, AVI and WMV files, but not for QuickTime files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Actually, I've just answered my own question!
A bit long-winded...
Start to play the mp4 in Quicktime.
Pause at a suitably artistic moment in the action.
Shift-cmd-4 to take a selection of the screen and grab it as a file (I have my system set so it grabs it as a jpg.)
Open that jpg in Preview.
Select some of the image and cmd-C to copy it
Cmd-I to open the 'info' on the file in question.
Highlight the icon in the top left corner.
Cmd-V to 'overwrite' that with the image you have just put on your clipboard.
It works! But like I said, it does seem a VERY circuitous route.
Also seems to highlight the fact that you can use any size of jpg image as an icon. Is this something new in Leopard?
Anyway, I'm sure there's a clever person out there who knows how to do this 'properly'...?

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