Vista - Quicktime black bar

Hey so I have searched on the internet around and no1 can find the answer so I figured you guys might be able to. Randomly my quicktime progress bar is always blacked out now. Just one day it went black and it hasn't changed back. I have uninstalled and reinstalled new and older versions to see if that was the problem. Nothing seems to be working. What I mean when I say the progress bar is blacked out is that at the bottom of any quicktime streaming video the progress bar that usually shows play/pause, volume, and next and back is completely blacked out but it still works. I just have to guess where everything about is. Anyways, any help or suggestions would be great. I am running Home Premium 64bit and besides that have no other problems and love it!

Sorry, but I am pretty much no help as I have the same problem . What browser are you using? I get this problem running 32-bit firefox, but I'm not sure if this problem is on any other browsers. I am using Vista Ultimate x64.

Sorry for the long delay to post back. I have been really busy and working on school. Anyways, this happens whenever I stream something with quicktime only. If I open the quicktime player it works fine, but when I stream the status bar is just black. It functions properly but it can't be seen, so I can't see the status of how much is downloaded. This is really starting to piss me off also, seeing how I have tried Firefox and IE and some software that uses quicktime and nothing works properly, the bar is always black. Any help would be awesome. I am considering just emailing support through Apple to see if they have heard of this from anyone else.

Got the same problem here, running vista ultimate x64 as well.
Anyone know how to fix it?

Somewhat of a solution:

1. Right click on the browser icon
2. Select properties
3. Go to the compatibility tab
4. Check the box for "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
5. Make sure it says "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" in the drop down list.
6. Press "OK" at the bottom

This solution will allow you to see the normal quicktime timeline and volume options, etc. when watching a quicktime video, but from my experience the moment a quicktime video loads in the browser, your vista aero scheme will change to vista basic while the browser is open. Once you close your browser, the scheme will change back to vista aero.

I noticed no one responded to this. I wanted to thank you for a quick and easy fix that works for the browser. Again, thank you, it works.

On Windows 7 the same effect can be achieved by using "Windows Vista" compatibility mode, plus you will not ever get aero scheme changing to vista basic.