Corrupt Quicktime files from Photo Booth

I am looking for a Quicktime Repair tool for Mac OS X. Preferably one that can re-write / repair quicktime headers and verify video frame data.
My 4 year old was making some videos of himself using Photo Booth .. my wife and I happened to discover them a few nights ago and were laughing like mad.. was really cute and funny.
So you can imagine our disappointment when I logged in today to move them to a safe location, and couldn't see them in Photo Booth. Inside the filesystem, I show a number of .MOV files, but none of them play. Quicktime reports "The movie could not be opened. The file is not a movie file." Seven of Fourteen movie files in the folder are like this.
When I try to open it in VLC I get a more detailed message in the message log (i've snipped it down for the purpose of posting)
access_file debug: opening file `/Users/family/Movies/kids/Movie 36.mov'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre-buffering...
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: pre-buffering done 851942 bytes in 0s - 7424 kbytes/s
mp4 debug: found Box: mdat size 32
mp4 debug: skip box: "mdat"
mp4 debug: found Box: wide size 8
mp4 debug: skip box: "wide"
mp4 debug: found an empty box (null size)
mp4 debug: dumping root Box "root"
mp4 debug: | + mdat size 32
mp4 debug: | + wide size 8
mp4 debug: file type box missing (assuming ISO Media file)
mp4 error: MP4 plugin discarded (no moov box)
I loaded the file up in 0xED (a Hex Editor) and the raw file header in the BAD files look like:
... mdatftypftypftypftypftypftypftyp....wide....mdat h.......
while a GOOD file header look something like
... ftypqt ....qt ......................wide...smdat h .....
It looks corrupt to me. I'd like to think that only the header is corrupt, and the video data is still fine ... I was curious if anyone had anything to assist?
The only other thing I could think about doing was hexediting the headers, swapping good headers for the bad ones (since the videos from Photo Booth share the same dimension, FPS, etc)

Was this problem ever solved? I've got a similar one.

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