When I am playing things in quicktime, when I set it to full screen I would like it to darken out the rest of the screen (similar to Media Player) is that Possible?
the apple bastards charge extra for that feature. you can download VLC player that offers full screen image, which also happens to play virtually any video format, and its free.
There is an apple script out there that can make Quicktime fullscreen without Quicktime Pro, don't have the link just now, but I'm sure you can find it by googling.