Update iTunes on new Hard Drive

I just got a new Hard Drive, and when trying to access my Itunes library dragged over from my old Hard Drive - it gives me an error message that Quicktime is needed. I have Quicktime - but seems to be an older version - 7.5.1 - when trying to install 7.5.5 it tells me it cannot be done since I have a newer version than that??

What operating system version are you using?  How did it get onto the new hard drive?
QuickTime 7.5.5 for Leopard - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL27
QuickTime 7.7 for Leopard - http://support.apple.com/kb/dl761
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/QuickTime/061-674 2.20090909.TgQt4/QuickTime764_Tiger.dmg
=New version of Quicktime installed but application reports it needs to have that version installed=
Open Application > Utilities > System Profiler and check the Quicktime version in Frameworks vs. the version in Applications.  I recently helped where the person had re-installed their operating system.  It had kept the newer Player application but had reverted to an earlier version of the underlying support framework that works with many applications.  Re-installing Quicktime 7.7 took care of the problem.

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