Quickview Not Responding As Expected

Hello everyone,

Just got Monterey loaded and I'm having trouble with Quickview. Usually when you press spacebar on a file (photo/video/etc) it opens a preview window that goes away when you press spacebar again. Others have reported that all they are seeing is a thumbnail when they hit spacebar. When I do it either does nothing or opens the supporting program. Which is extremely frustrating when trying to just view 1 of 300 or so RAW images per folder!

Is it a bug, or some setting I have wrong somewhere? Perhaps in Accessibility?: Sometimes in List view, pressing spacebar makes the file disappear from the browser window until I switch sorting methods. Once it does open a video file for example parts of the Quicktime UI (Play button here) will stay up over the video as shown in the attached screenshot:

This is happening on a new (October 2021) 14" MacBook Pro with M1 Max chip

My troubleshooting thus far: restarting, restarting Finder, and quitting the actual Quickview process in Activity Monitor. Any suggestions?

Thanks for reading!