Rendering (Ken Burn, Themes, etc) problem cause by QT Quartz Composer?

Does everyone get this some error in their system log?
looks like Ken Burn rendering is caused by the following error:
Quartz Composer QuickTime Component: Error in CompositionMediaHandlerSetHints() at line 1872: Runtime reset failed
And preview for Themes error:
iMovie HD[214] * Message from <QCQuickTimePlayer = 0x064F3270 "QuickTimePlayer_2">:
QTVisualContext creation failed (error -9459)
Rendering also create the same errors:
Message from <QCQuickTimePlayer = 0x10A1AF60 "QuickTimePlayer_1">:
QTVisualContext creation failed (error -9459)
Quartz Composer QuickTime Component: Error in CompositionMediaHandlerSetHints() at line 1872: Runtime reset failed

I don't know whether QT 7.5 is your problem. Apple has upgraded that program to 7.5.5, which apparently cured some of the problems with the earlier version.
Some contributors to this forum have downloaded earlier versions of QT from this website:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/listof_quicktimedownloads.html
in conjunction with another program called Pacifist.

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    Karl

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    Hi, Nice to be here, despite the problems!
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