Safari and QuickTime problem?

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but I sifted through the topics and couldn't find the answer. After trying various things I'm left to post a question.
When I open certain pages there are QuickTime links with question marks inside them all over various parts of the page. Lots of the pages I normally visit like espn.com won't even show anything, and I'm wondering what happened? Did I install a plug-in that messed everything up?
Any help would be most appreciated as using Firefox is becoming annoying. Thanks.

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