Safari and troubles with wmv files.

I'm using Safari, Quick Time Pro. I've installed Flip4Mac. When opening a file other than wmv Quicktime launches and it works fine. However when opening a wmv file it doesn't open Quicktime or Flip4Mac it open's I-Tunes. I did reset my mime-settings but it didn't work. I-Tunes still opens.
When using Opera it works fine. I can see that the Flip4Mac plugin is correctly installed. Opera also showed me that my standardapplication to open a wmv-file I-Tunes is. The latter is not mentioned to be. Probably I did something wrong, but I can't correct this.
Recently I had VLC installed and I tried to install Windows Media Player for Mac.
Should I reinstall Quick Time and I-Tunes??
Can somebody help me Safari play wmv files correctly?
Thanks

It's simpler to just reinstall the OS, followed by running Software Update. Reinstalling shouldn't take too long and only replaces the system components and the basic Apple apps, leaving all settings and other files alone.

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