Upgrade to 7.3 breaks my Leopard!

Leopard on my G4 dual 1ghz tower has been working great since instal. Last night I upgraded to Quicktime 7.3 and iMovie 7.5 . . . now it boots to the desktop and goes into a permanent beach ball spin cycle. Called Apple after 3/4 hour hold and they told me to archive and instal . . . . ARRRRRGH!
Anybody have any other ideas . . . re-installing is a pain and takes forever.

I have a G5 imac and it breaks my leopard as well, but I have found a solution of sorts...
Restart from the leopard cd holding the c key and create a root user in the accounts menu item then restart normally. If you've set your account prefs to log you in automatically, and if your doc is available on login, (even though you've got that broken finder) you can open an app (not system pref's though) in it to access the apple menu. logout (it'll quit that app you've opened), reopen an app and then force quit the finder. Next login as the root user and your leopard should work fine delete all the quicktime generated files-
/Hd/Library/QuickTime Plugin.plugin,
QuickTime Plugin.webplugin;
/hd/library/caches/;
/hd/library/preferences/com.apple.QuickTime.plist;
~user/username/library/preferences/QuickTime Preferences, com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist;
/application/quicktime player
now you can log back in and get back to work until apple finds a fix for this serious problem!

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