Safari is not playing media!!!

I am so confused. Out of the blue about a month ago Safari stopped playing media. It will no longer play quicktime media or any other media that it had in the past on the Apple website and any other website. I am very concerned about this because I frequently veiw media for work and this problem is preventing me from being able to do every day things that must get done!
What I have done so far is:
1. Run all the updates.
2. Re-install OS X.4
3. Re-run the updates
4. Attempted to dig around in Quicktime preferences and Safari preferences to no avail
PLEASE HELP!!!!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi Cassiopia,
Have a look in Safari's prefs and see if "Enable plug-ins" under the 'Security' tab is checked. The viewing of web media is typically controlled with the use of plug-ins so this needs to be checked.
If that's not it then have a look in the folder: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ to see what's there. Here's a list of what's in mine for comparison:
<pre>
Flash Player Enabler.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
Java Applet Plugin Enabler
Java Applet.plugin
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.webplugin
RealPlayer Plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.xpt
flashplayer.xpt
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
</pre>
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