I know I'm a year late on this, but I wanted to comment on this tip. Using Quicktime and Expose as a desktop movie player is excellent, but not as good as Monkeybreadsoftware's Desktop Movie Player (www.monkeybreadsoftware.de). Not only is it free, and drag-and-dropable, but you have access to your icons as well! It is a CPU hog, but as long as I can access my desktop folders and function just as I would wiht a regular desktop, I'm using Desktop Movie Player.

If anyone can find a solution to still accessing desktop folders while watching the movie on the desktop - and have the movie play automatically on the deskop when you start up your computer - then I'd be a very happy camper.

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