Quicktime web videos freeze after loading - Suggestions?

Hi, just recently today I have been experiencing a strange thing when watching any quicktime video online. It will load the video completely and then as soon as its loaded my OS freezes for about 10 seconds, then unfreezes for a second, and continues until I can navigate my mouse to the X and click it. It also happens when I launch the quicktime player and try to watch something like the movie trailers and such. I was running the previous version of quicktime when the error started occuring about 2 hours ago. I upgraded to the latest and it still does it. Also, with the old Quicktime installed I got an error and I think it said something like Buffer underrun error or something to that effect, It would happen whenever I tried to load a video through the quicktime client instead of the web. Then the pc locks up and stutters really bad and I have no idea what to do about it... Any suggestions?
Message was edited by: ZoranBlackwind

While in Quicktime, click "Edit" > Preferences > Quicktime Preferences. Then click the "Streaming" tab and make an adjustment at the bottom in the "Instant-On" area so there's more of a delay.

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