Recovering Video File when Quicktime 7.6.6 relaunches

Hi
I was in the middle of a wonderful interview with a Human Rights Activist when Quicktime QUIT unexpectedly. I relaunched the program and continued the interview on another file. Only now I cannot find first file anywhere. Anyone know if it's possible to recover lost video files? Looked in trash, files are garbage, no movie exists. Help!
Lolo

Update: The problem only happens with MacOS 10.5.6. Running the pre-installed MacOS 10.5.5 the 9400M and 9600M displays movies smoothly using QuickTime 7.6. Disabling hardware-accelerated playback by deleting the "AppleVAH264HW.component" in "/System/Library/Quicktime" also "solves" the problem.

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