Quicktime - aarrgghh!!!

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Running 10.6.5 and can't seem to find a way of stopping quicktime from automatically playing downloaded movie files.

Can't locate a preferences pane

anyone able to help?

Thanks
 
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Which application do you want as default to play your downloaded movie files?
 
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I don't want any to open automatically, I'd rather just choose as and when I want to play the files.
 
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Open up Safari - Preferences - General tab - uncheck Open "safe" files after downloading.
 

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