AVI Files, Sound but No Video

I have searched the forums but could not find the answer. I have a slightly tricky situation.
I have old AVI files on my hard drive captured from a Sony D8 camcorder. I used PE (version 2 I believe) to capture them. This was a couple of years ago. I have around 30 tapes and captured all the material from all of the tapes (around 700GB). I then inlayed the date and time stamp on all the clips using DV Date (an excellent utility). The initial enthusiasm of editing and converting them to DVD's stopped after the first couple of projects ;-)
Fast forward 2 years, when I tried to play the clips, I only get sound and no video (Windows media player, NERO, WinAmp etc.), with one exception, the VLC player. When I get the clips into PE, they work fine! The DV date utility also cannot open the files. It says, only audio stream found and no video stream.
I tried VirtualDub. It plays them without any errors. I then saved them and tried to play with other players. Same problem. Previously every player was playing them fine and now they don't. I am terrified by the idea of re-importing from all the tapes and re-inlaying them with date and time.
What I did between the time they played fine and now was to back-up all the files onto another hard drive and defragment the first hard drive (I am still using the same computer to do all this). Files have the same problem from either drive.
Bottom line, the clips work fine within PE but sound with no video on the media players.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot.

Bill,
Just wanted to post a follow-up on my problem for the benefit of others.
I thought all my files are corrupt and decided to capture them again. When I hooked up my Sony D8 camcorder (using FireWire) I had problems again! PrE said "Can't Activate Recorder. Try Resetting Camcorder".
Tried Windows Movie Maker and that gave me a rather helpful (not!) "an unknown error occurred". Back to my troubleshooting again and found a post somewhere on Adobe forums about "regsvr32 qdv.dll" . [Start -> Run and type regsvr32 qdv.dll (there is a space between 2 and q)]. I did that and all of my old files started working! Windows media player now plays them fine. GSpot now says everything is good. I have attached the GSpot output below.
Now the bad news. When I import media files into PrE, there is no audio! Windows media player still plays them fine.
After re-registered the qdv.dll, I had problem with audio but re-starting the PC fixed it.
Now, back to audio troubleshooting in PrE! I will post an update if I am successful.
Thanks.

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