Help!  Avi's are playing back through quicktime (pro) white images,no sound

Okay, so i have some videos that are avi files. One was emailed to me from one person, and others are from a totally unrelated person-theyre now on my mac web gallery. Anyway, when i open them through safari or quicktime, the movies seem to play back (my one friend's has no sound and is white screen; the gallery videos have sound but no image, same thing, all white) but have a white screen instead of the movie image.
Any suggestions?? I'm soo lost and really need these videos!

Download and install Perian. Note that some AVIs will not work in Mac OS X; AVI is a container, not a format.
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