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OS 10.5.8
I went to use quicktime from the dock and it would not open.
I opened apps only to find the QT icon wasn't there. I trashed the QT icon from the dock and downloaded QT 7.6.9 from an apple
site using firefox. After installing and restarting, the QT icon did not appear. All I had was the installer icon and that led me nowhere. I trashed QT, restarted and downloaded QT again from apple using safari. I came up with the same results.
I seem to remember having this problem about a year ago but I can't remember what caused it.
Anyone have an idea?
jaybass