CS4 Premiere Pro Monitor Window, Again

I posted several days ago about the problems I'm having with displaying video in Encore and Premiere Pro in CS4. This is incrediblyl frustrating because my older versions of these products always worked fine, and still do.
I've come across an insight:
AVI files that were created by using "export movie" in my older version of Premiere Pro give me a variety of problems when trying to display them in the monitor window of the CS4 version of Premiere Pro. For example, the monitor window might be teal when I first move a clip to a sequnce. Then I click on the mintor window with my mouse and the teal is replaced by the correct image from the clip. But then I click the "play" icon below the monitor window and it becomes mostly teal, but with a few hash marks just to the right of center. At other times, the display has been different.
AVI files that were created by using the codec of Microsoft Video 1 seem to display fine in the CS4 version of Premiere Pro. I approached this two different ways. In one example, I took a clip that displayed fine in my older version of Premiere but looked like a mess in the CS4 version, and I used VirtualDub to created a converted version of it using the codec Microsoft Video 1. PPro CS4 was able to import and display the version created within VirtualDub with the Microsoft Video 1 codec perfectly. Then I took another clip that had display problems in Premiere Pro CS4, and used the "export" feature within Premiere Pro CS4 to export it to AVI, using the Microsoft Video 1 codec. I then imported that output file into Premier Pro CS4, and that too displayed perfectly within Premiere Pro.
My system config:
CS4 version of Premiere Pro, fully registered. This was an "upgrade" version, installed on a machine that had an older version of CS4
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 as operating system
Sony Vaio laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2.93 gig of RAM
I tried going to Sony's web site in search of updated display drivers, but that section of the site appears to not be working. I also tried going through the control panel's device driver dialogue and clicking "update driver" and that didn't work either. So I'm stuck with the driver versions that I currently have.
But I wonder, are my device drivers really the problem? I'm skeptical, because of the fact that AVI files created using the Microsoft Video 1 codec don't have the problem.
So how can I get the CS4 version of Premiere Pro to properly display AVI files created by my older version of Premiere Pro? I really don't want to do a labor-intensive effort of converting all my clips in all my projects to Microsoft Video 1 just to work around the poor quality assurance that appears to have been done by Premiere Pro CS4's development team.

In Premiere Pro CS4, if I pick the dialogue for File > Export > Media, it takes me to an "Export Settings" window which contains an option to select which codec to use. On my computer, there are 13 choices, including Cinepak Codec by Radius, DV (24p Advanced), DV NTSC, DV PAL, Indeo Video 5.10, Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2, Intel Indeo Video 4.5, Intel IYUV Codec, Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, Microsoft Windows Media Video 9, Uncompressed UYVY 422 8-bit, and V210 10-bit YUV.
I don't know which codec my older version of Premiere Pro uses to generate AVI files when I use its "Export Movie" option. I just know that whatever it does, ends up displaying horribly in the CS4 version opf Premiere Pro. However, using either VirtualDub or Premiere Pro CS4 to rewrite the AVI file using the Microsoft Video 1 codec results in an AVI file that the CS4 version of Premiere Pro can play back without problem.
The distortion in the monitor window is different from one clip to the next. I'll post a few examples. In all cases, the AVI's were generated by the older version of Premiere Pro, using the "Export Movie" option.
Example Number 1
While playback is occurring (note that this one shows up as salmon-colored, which is another thing that has happened on a number of my attempts with other clips as well):
However, if I click on the square icon to make playback stop, the colors in the monitor window display properly when it stops. In this example, the clip is black and white, and here's how it looks (ie, the correct colors) after I have clicked on stop.
I'll post another message showing examples from another clip.

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