Corrupted .AVI Files

Not sure where else I could put this thread. I have a bunch of.avi files that I can't open in Quicktime. I get a error message that says that Quicktime cannot open the movie file. I'm figuring that these files are damaged/corrupted in someway. Any tricks/hints out there that I could use? Or maybe some other method of repairing the corrupted files so that I can open them again?
Thanks!

Ok.. here is the whole story. it is starting to look like it's gonna take much longer to try and save these avi files then to just pull them off of the dvd's and convert them from mpg2's to mpg4's... but here is my whole story anyways:
i downloaded a bunch of avi files. about 90% of them won't open in quicktime or go through my main program of choice (VisualHub). When I tried, they either simply won't open (in quicktime) or they get an error and the program stops processing (VisualHub).
I tried out VLC and they opened up perfectly. I even tried spotting through the video and everything looked great. I then wanted to export the video to try and make a new (Fixed) version aside from the avi version that, like noted above, was not opening. so i tried exporting one with the video codec setting at H264 at 1024 bitrate. Then the audio codec at mpg4 audio with 192 bitrate. VLC was a bit slow exporting the video... but after it was done the video now opened up in quicktime.. YEAH!
BUT... now the video and audio are way out of sync. (video is ahead of the audio)
so thats where the "I need a program to offset the audio to sync it back up" started. Now that I found a couple of programs that are offsetting the audio.. I'm running into another problem. i matched the audio sync at the front end of the video perfectly... but then upon later review.. the tail end is now out of sync. I did find a program that states that you can set up several sync points for videos that go in and out of sync in various places... but i think by now it is just becoming more of a pain in the butt. I'm gonna have to do this process for like almost 200 individual videos... (ehhhh... i don't think so) thats becoming way too much.
if anyone knows of some "Miracle" tip/hint that I am totally missing... I am all ears... but I'm thinking that I am just gonna have to go thru all of my dvd's and do it from scratch. (I guess it'll keep me busy and occupied)
Just in case you're wondering my main/final goal.. i wanted to convert these .avi files to mpg4's so that i could put them onto my Apple TV.
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