Washed out picture

Hi all,
Since I upgraded to Quicktime 7.3 everything I try to watch looks really washed out. I played with the A/V ontrols but nothing helps. Also if I try to upgrade from the quicktime menu bar it brings up an error msg and shuts itself down so fast I can't even read the error msg.
Is there anything I can do?
Erin

+Since I upgraded to Quicktime 7.3 everything I try to watch looks really washed out.+
With that one, try the "Disable Direct3D video acceleration in QuickTime" section from the following document. (iTunes uses QuickTime for video playback, so the same basic troubleshooting techniques apply.)
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows XP and 2000 video playback performance issues

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