Why can't I open Windows Media Player videos?

I opened the Tonight Show with Jay Leno web site:
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/TheTonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/fruitcakelady/
When I clicked on the link to view videos of The Fruit Cake Lady, I got this message:
The page “NBC.com > Screening Room” has content of MIME type “application/x-oleobject”. Because you don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type, this content can’t be displayed.
I’ve tried in vain to find this plug-in. Can anyone tell me where I might get it or how I might get around it?
I’m using an eMac Power PC G4, 125 GHz, 768 MB RAM, Safari 2.0.3, QuickTime 7.1, Flip4Mac 2.0.2.10
eMac 1.25 GHz Power PC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 768 MB RAM, Superdrive

Google to the rescue! http://www.google.com/mac?q=nbc+videos led me to http://blog.nocertainthing.co.uk/2006/04/04/hacking-nbcs-videos-cont/ which has complete step-by-step instructions to extract the correct address to play the videos.
NBC could have designed their web site to do this in a browser-neutral manner. But apparently they hate anyone who doesn't use IE on Windows.
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