FrontRow and movies

My turn to ask for some help.
When I try to use FrontRow to watch movies, not DVDs, all I get is the spinning cursor. No list of the movies in my Movie folder, just the spinning cursor that goes on for minutes, I can't backup with the remote button. After my patience runs out I do a command-option-escape. I have deleted the frontrow.plist and the frontrow cache, and fixed permissions to no avail.
Any suggestions?

I had the same problem as mentioned by the original poster of this thread on my brand new MacBook Pro. After playing around with all the great advice posted here, I discovered that the spinning wheel hang-up is due to having .mov movies inside the 'Movies' folder. If you just remove the .mov files from that folder, or put them all inside another subfolder, frontRow will work just fine. At last, that was what did it in my MacBook Pro. Can somebody else confirm this solution? Obviously, Apple must take a close look at what's happening with the handling of .mov movies files.
15.4 MacBook Pro 1GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  
15.4 MacBook Pro 1GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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