Every damn player you install will try to take over. It's essential to carefully monitor the installation process, and when you get a shot at assigning the file types yourself, you have to painstakingly do it. I've had to accumulate a stupid list of file types to remember which one I have assigned to which.

Ironically, the players don't seem to work as well as their more primitive versions, or maybe it's just that the software has outrun my pig of a computer.

I have Quicktime, but not ITunes, which never works that well on a PC anyway. Apple's routine updates keep trying to install both of them as a package, so I have to hunt down the separate Quicktime updates myself.

Argh. But I suppose this is the price you pay for competition in an industry...