AVI imported files don't play correctly

I have some AVI files I have been using with Premiere Pro 2, and they worked OK with it. E.g. MPEG-4.
Now I am importing these AVI clips to Premiere Pro CS4 and they don't play correctly in it. The video runs very quickly, while the sound plays normally.
Interesting enough, there are some other AVI files that have the same specifications that work OK with Premiere Pro CS4.
How can I fix Premiere Pro CS4 to import correctly all my AVI files?

Ok think about you are a director from the news-television. A car drove in a supermarket and the only man who filmed that was a "little consumer man" with a "little consumer camera" named Ixus 500 which takes mjpeg films. What are you doing? Do you say, sorry boss we can't handle the film!?
Premiere have to work with non profi material as well because of the fact that it could be needful.
In the fact that Premiere could handle this file without any errors when I install the reported codec, I think there must be a mistake by Premiere of choosen the right codec for this film. I have a mjpeg codec installed in my system. I think this one is used by Windows-Mediaplayer, Moviemaker. At this time I think Premiere use a different codec. It took the wrong option! After I install the reported mjpeg codec from "Morgan" Premiere think that it is the best to use this codec. And so the film plays correctly.
You can have many codecs installed at same time which are all used for the same video-format. The program which will play this movie has to do the right choice of which codec it will use to decode the movie. A help for this programms is the "Merit" of the codec which describes the priority of a codec. Higher Merit means use this codec first. You can see an example in the picture above.
http://www.abload.de/img/screenshot.2occ6.jpeg
First mjpeg codec is the standard windows codec. Second is my installed Morgan mjpeg codec. However without the Morgan codec Premiere should use the first one. I don't know why but I think without the Morgan installed, Premiere use a third codec which plays the movie wrong.

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