Selecting any file as 'Open With' crashes the Finder and worse than this...

This is happening w/ ANY file on my system & quite a pain if I want to open something in quicktime 7 instead of x.... can't do it. So then I open QT 7 & try to open it that way & doing it that way only crashes QT instead of the Finder.
I just ran DiskUtility this morning..
So, I open up TextEdit & then try and select 'open file' and again.... TextEdit crash (*further detail below). Apparently, the only way to open my files is to double-click the doc. themselves.
*When the 'Open' pane comes up, it automatically has the Desktop place selected & then GarageBand & iTunes in the top half (GarageBand selected) & down below it says 'Loading GarageBand songs...' so, it appears to be stuck and I have no choice to select anything else.
Ideas on what to do?

coffeemugger wrote:
how do you move fonts to the desktop... they only 'copy' & it won't let you delete it from 'library'.
The fonts your looking to drag to the Desktop are in your Home directory. Are you sure you chose /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts?
coffeemugger wrote:
if it's corrupt & pinpointing is hard....is there a way to do something to open up permissions for all my software so i can just bail and go w/ the new administrative account w/ out having to do license keys all over again?
You can do that without worry about licenses or permissions on apps by dragging all the folders within your present Home separately to your new Home folder. i.e. Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, etc.
a friend said in the past people have had crazy stuff w/ more than 1 quicktime version on their puter & they had to rename one of them... but this is affecting more than 1 program & crashing the finder ... but thought i'd throw that in for the heck of it.
You can rename or delete QT 7. The only problem is that it will probably re-appear on the next update. I'm not sure if it will help though.
-mj

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