Can't import videos to iTunes library...

I can't get videos into my iTunes library. I've done it once before, but my computer isn't letting me drag the file from the Movie folder on my computer to the library on iTunes.
Does it make a difference which format the movie is? Because it's .avi, so yeah. I know its got to be a certain format for it to be on the iPod, and you can just click the "convert to AAC" or whatever on the video, but I just can't get it into the library to convert it to the AAC.
Windows XP

Sorry to bust in on this thread but am pretty good with computers but feel like a real idiot here.
I recently downloaded a video and converted it into mpeg-4 using videora which was done successfully. Now I opened Itunes and went onto library where all my songs are and clciked on 'file' and then 'add file to library' and double clicked on the video which said it was mpeg-4 and I cant find it in my library, nor is it listed when I go down and click on videos.
I hope I'm doing something really stupid and missing something. Can anyone help??
Thanks

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I am left feeling a bit silly as the answer was so straightforward. For some reason i was assuming that Itunes would never be so easy. I'm not sure what traumatic experience lay behind that feeling.
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I meant to mark your post as the answer but I can't see any obvious box to click

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