Actually, you can remove the Quicktime and iTunes applications but you can't remove the Quicktime framework because Aqua depends on the quicktime framework
offtopic: Your story resembles mine a lot, but I persevered a little bit longer. If you would add the non-OSS repository of openSUSE to your install sources, you can install 2 packages from intel with drivers for the 3945 chipset. They work like a charm on my Tecra A8
Actually, you can remove the Quicktime and iTunes applications but you can't remove the Quicktime framework because Aqua depends on the quicktime framework
offtopic: Your story resembles mine a lot, but I persevered a little bit longer. If you would add the non-OSS repository of openSUSE to your install sources, you can install 2 packages from intel with drivers for the 3945 chipset. They work like a charm on my Tecra A8