Ah, this is why you install the OPEN SOURCE quicktime codecs on your machine and not Apple's DRM infused stuff. Apple is dedicated to the open source movement and offers you a choice. I have chosen to install the open source quick time codecs... And I never have the problems you descrbe. The open source stuff exists for windows too. But I don't know where to get it.

Like an angry housewife, I don't do windows.