ok... tho i have never seen this occur, i would start by (you guessed it) deleting the QT pref's file and restarting your Mac BUT be advised you will need to re-register QT after this procedure IF you have QTPro
a good place to start with any software-related problem (and some hardware ones too, come to think) is to rebuild the desktop and delete related preferences files or vice versa, whatever
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