How do I rotate an AVI movie?

This is a weird one, but here goes.
I'm using a Canon SD550, which makes AVI movies. I've got a couple of such movies where the camera was held vertically rather than horizontally. They don't display correctly in iPhoto or Quicktime.
My solution is to use QT Pro, open the properties window and change the visual settings for the video track.
Then I save as, which creates an MOV file. Then I import the new file back into iPhoto and copy the the time and date from the old, unrotated file and then finally, delete the old file.
The problem is that in one case the "poster frame" comes in garbled, no matter what I do. This is not the Quicktime poster frame -- it's the still frame that iPhoto shows you in the iPhoto library. It seems to have been taken from the first frame of the file, but it's all jumbled up and looks like a mess.
Does anybody know whether this is a serious problem? Does it mean the video is messed up somehow (it seems to play fine)? And does anybody know how to fix it?
Thanks very much to anyone who can help.
Steve

Steve,
I haven't tried rotating with QT Pro, but I do have a suggestion for you. My Canon came with ImageBrowser. I don't normally use it because iPhoto is superior. However, if you select a video clip in IB you can open it inside the Video Edit task. It has several functions to edit the clip, including actually rotating it. (By actually I mean that it's not just a display setting.) If you have this app, you could rotate the video clip before importing into iPhoto. I would expect that iPhoto would have no problem creating the poster frame and thumbnail correctly. I have used rotated clips in iMovie with no problems.
I thought QT pro could also properly rotate a video clip, without just changing the display settings. People on the QT forums or iMovie forums (esp QuickTime Kirk) would be able to advise you there.
Regards.

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