Quicktime trouble

Quicktime is fubar. I have re-installed and re-installed Quicktime, but it is having some serious issues. I posted a few days ago, but no one has responded. Since then I have looked for answers and help on the internet with no success.
I cannot watch movie trailers from the Apple site (the Quicktime Q comes up, faded with a question mark). I have not tried to watch any other kinds of Quicktime videos. Under MIME Settings (in Preferences, Browser), there is nothing checked under "miscellaneous".
Occassionally the following message has appeared. "Some of the file types associated with Quicktime applications are currently associated with other applications. Should I restore these file type associations to Quicktime? Yes No". I have said yes. I'm not sure what applications it is referring to. Any ideas how I can track that down?
When I try to open the Quicktime Player, it seems to have loaded improperly (the prompts such as File, Edit, etc are shown twice, one below the other. There is a black horizontal space, and there is a white with blue border vertical space. When I have tried to click on the latter, a title seems to appear - Untitled 2. I have not created any documents or anything with Quicktime. Otherwise it is unresponsive; it is useless.). This has been the same everytime I have re-installed.
I went to the Quicktime trouble shooting page. The Quicktime Q's are the same - faded with a question mark.
I'm sorry to put this here twice. I know not being able to watch movie trailers is not the end of the world. But it would be nice to be able to use this application.

I have a similar problem with 1 of the 2 MacBook Pro's. The one having problems with displaying web contents (Quicktime question marks all over the place) at www.cartoonnetwork.com was configured new by importing all files from a PowerBook G4, which also has the problem at www.cartoonnetwork.com. The other MacBook Pro does not have the problem because it was not configured by importing files from another machine. I have tried emptying all cache and resetting Safari to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks.

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