Quicktime 7 Screen Recorder help

I am working on a project which requires screen recorder in Quicktime. 24 hours ago, I was working in Quicktime, and was having no trouble recording the screen movements and saving them as quicktime movies.

This evening, I start up quicktime to continue my work, and the screen recorder option is nowhere to be found. I am very frustrated by this. I just want to make a few short clips of the work I am doing, and the option isn't even in the menu.

I am using QuickTime 7 PRO, version 7.6.6

and Mac OS X Version 10.6.7

Thanks in advance, this is really frustrating me.