Since updating from 7.3.0 to 7.3.1 I'm finding that Quicktime won't play the video on .mp4 files, it plays the audio just fine, but shows a blank screen. The strangest part is that it's fine on two other computers, only one, a G4 iMac (800MHz, 512mb). Is it simply the low spec of the computer?
Same problem after the upgrade to QuickTime 7.4.1 The preview looks and plays like an audio file, but the video only plays when imported to iTunes. Earlier files saved as .mov still work. Very odd!
There is no such thing as a Leopard version of QuickTime.
Leopard shipped with QuickTime 7.3 and you can't install older QuickTime versions on it. But you can install any version 7 QuickTime on Tiger. 10.4 (Tiger) shipped with QuickTime version 7.
That download is an "update" and they
can be OS specific. A download from Apple's pages would have been the most current release which would install on any supported machine.
Now that you've mucked up your entire computer your only options are archive and install from the OS installer DVD.