Backed-up purchased videos unrecognized on iTunes

I had my Toshiba 80G hard drive start to die on me last week, so I burned everything of importance on DVD's before sending my Powerbook G4 into the shop. When I went to re-import all the music, podcasts, and videos that I'd downloaded and purchased, the videos didn't appear.
I even tried created a folder called 'videos' in my itunes folder, but it doesn't show up. The m4v files are there, but iTunes won't recognize them, import them, or play them when I double-click on them. I paid good money for these music videos, and I took the time to back them up. Why can't I play them?
PowerBook G4 1.5GHz   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

I'm sure it's tacky to reply to your own post of your own question, but since I resolved the issue by myself (and by accident), I thought it might be worthwhile to put the solution down in words in case anyone else actually ends up with the same problem.
The problem was solved by one or both of the following things I did:
I downloaded iTunes 7, and I downloaded the latest Quicktime (which apparently is still not good enough to look at the mac commercials on their web site <grr>). One or both of these things allowed my computer to recognize and import the videos I'd previously purchased on iTunes and backed up on a data DVD.
So if this happens to you, try what I did. It might work for you too.
Nancy

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