It thinks my video files are music

I used my iPod with my laptop for the first time a few days ago, and for some reason it moved all of the video files on my iPod into the music section. I can only assume that's because I had a really old version of iTunes on that computer at the time. When I play one of the files on my iPod, it plays the audio and uses the first frame of video as the artwork. When I play one via my computer (but using the file on my iPod), it plays normally. Is there some way I can move them back to the movies section and/or make them play properly on my iPod? I could just delete them all and re-download them, but I wouldn't be able to get all of them back that way. I accidentally deleted the backup of a favorite video just before this happened. >.>;;
  Windows XP  

I was browsing other topics while waiting for a response and read that there's a way to access all the files on an iPod through My Computer, which made me remember that I had hidden files set to be invisible. I switched them to be shown, and all the files were right there, with weird code names. I just copied all the video files into My Documents, sorted them, and put them back on.

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