QuickTime X does not play QuickTime Broadcaster recordings

This is a post I'm leaving for other SL upgraders who come looking for information on why their QuickTIme Broadcaster .mov files and other QuickTime files such as .m4v for iPod that don't play on QuickTime X but do play on iTunes and QT 7.
I'm finding there are compatibility issues with QT X not playing files that were created with Apple utilities such as QT Pro and Broadcaster. This has happened with both iPod .m4v and Broadcaster .mov files. Sometimes you just get a plain black window with signature Apple rounded corners and other times you get that plus audio only. YMMV
Another point of pain is that the previously viewed URL list seems to not be remembered in QT X under some conditions that I cannot reproduce easily. QT 7 picked up the list from my Leopard install just fine however.
As noted elsewhere in this discussion forum, the solution is to open the QT X player Info window and check the 32-bit mode so QT X does not take advantage of any of those features of your hardware or OS.
IMHO the idea of a clean player is fine. The implementation leaves much to be desired and at present, is a wart on an otherwise trademark excellent step in a smooth OS evolution to 64-bit by Apple SW engineers. I doubt the QT X problems are engineering ones but rather product management decisions that prevented adequate resources be but on the component. Looking forward to SL releases that make QT X as invisible in the OS as it's window borders.
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For those with a similar problem, I read somewhere on the Apple forums that Metadata Hootenanny will add chapter tracks that appear correctly in QuickTime X. http://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html
I can confirm it works for me!!!! The chapter tracks show up in Metadata Hootenanny just fine, so it’s a matter of importing the file and saving it again with Chapter Track enabled. Yayayayay!

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