Where to download new QuickTime 7.7 for Windows?

Question

I'd like to get QuickTime 7.7 (but only because Apple has forced me to use iTunes + QT to use my iPod) BUT..... the Apple download website ATM only offers up the OLD version 7.6.9 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ and http://support.apple.com/kb/DL837), even though this ZDNet blog (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/apple-quicktime-flaws-haunt-windows-users/920 5#comments) and Apple itself (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) have announced the new version 7.7.
Way to go Apple.......... Fail!

Answer 1

John:
I intentionally avoided installing the "Apple Software Update" component of the iTunes+QuickTime installer package (v10.4 iTunes w/ v7.6.9 QuickTime) by following this procedure: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-unofficial-guide-to-installing-itunes-10-with out-bloatware/2390?tag=mantle_skin;content
Now when I attempt to update QuickTime from within QuickTime (7.6.9), or from WinXP Control Panel> QuickTime, it says new version 7.7 is available but it then takes me to webpage http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ that STILL lists version 7.6.9 of QuickTime !!
Thinking that maybe Apple had simply "forgotten" to update the version number on that webpage, I went ahead and downloaded the QT package, but when I unpacked that installer (using WinRAR), I see that indeed the downloaded package itself is indeed v7.6.9.
So at the moment, even though Apple 8/3/2011 announced & QuickTime claims to provide the new v7.7, in fact Apple is serving up old version 7.6.9.   > FAIL !
If anyone figures out how/where to actually get v7.7 for Windows (WITHOUT the bloated "Apple Software Updater" component), please post here. Thanks.