Thanks for the response. I wish I did that! I actually just tried to downgrade my quicktime to 7 using Pacifist using these instructions:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/post/using_pacifist_to_downgrade_quicktime.html
now I seemed to have screwed up my quicktime. It won’t even play HD files now. Though FCP still will. Yikes. Any ideas on how to restore my quicktime will also be appreciated.