Hey,
Wanted to let whomever read this that the post several days after this with the link to reinstall Quicktime 7.01 worked for me!

What a pain and a mind bender this was!

I havent' tried disc utility yet to see if I can now repair permissions, but Limewire works. Thanks so much to Stief...

Here is the link to the unistaller:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...cktime704.html