Windows Media Player 9 on iMac G5

The new Windows Media Player 9 for OS X plays well on my PowerMac G4, but on my iMac G5 I get the message 'The channel does not support the stream format' and nothing happens. Does anybody know a solution to that? It must be an iMac problem and not a WMP one, since it runs fine on my other Mac.

I found the answer in one of the posts from yesterday. It turns out to be the same issue, described in the apple report: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832.

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