QuickTime Player 6.5.2 problem

You're trying to open .php files in QuickTime?

 

It sounds like you have an ancient version of QT Player laying around from before a system update or something; you presumably already have 7.x installed if you've updated iTunes any time in the last few years, and it's just the app leftover, but somehow it's opening automatically instead of 7.x.

The solution would be to find the old QT player and delete it. Do you have maybe a "Previous Systems" folder leftover from an upgrade at some point?

 

Sorry I missed that you'd replied in this thread.

The answer is both, where they are.

QT10 is the new Snow Leopard rebuild, and you want its associated player in the Applications folder, where it is. QT7 is an optional install under Snow Leopard, for people who need or want the more old-fashioned but also more full-featured QT7 application--QT7 wasn't as good for just watching videos, but has a bunch of extra editing and transcoding features in the pro version that a small percentage of people--myself among them--use. I'm very glad Apple let us continue to have access to these features.

The QT7 player in your Utilities folder is this version; while the OS doesn't require it, there should be no harm at all in keeping it, and the Utilities folder is where it's supposed to live. It will coexist happily with QT10, and you can use the "open with" default to tell the OS which player app you prefer to open files in (note that in most cases both QT7 and QT10 have access to all the same installed codecs).

I, personally, use QT10 for just watching movies, then open things manually in QT7 when I want to do transcoding or mess with tracks in the file or whatnot.

You had apparently moved or copied an old version of the QT6 player to that other folder along the line somewhere, so it didn't get removed automatically by Snow Leopard's installer. Deleting it was the correct thing to do, and that will probably be the end of your problems.