ITunes 7 and playing videos

So, I recently downloaded iTunes 7 and never really used the video features because I had an older 3rd Gen iPod. I got an iPod video for Christmas and have been trying to get the video feature working on iTunes. I had some videos in my library, and they worked fine in my older version of iTunes.
However, I have discovered that the new version does not play ANY videos at all.
It won't let me import videos on my computer (and I have made sure they are the correct size and format) and it simply will not play any videos I have in my library (some that I purchased from the iTunes store) and it will not load any videos onto my iPod video. Interesting, eh?
Is anyone else having this problem?
I tried to download an older version of iTunes, but it would not install. I re-installed the new version and the same problem happened. I've been pouring over the support sites trying to find out what is going on but haven't found anything helpful. I even tried to uninstall itunes so I could re-install an older version, but it still wouldn't install.
I'm at my wit's end! Any help?

Someone I tried to help earlier encountered this problem. Let me know if the following link helps. They managed to figure out themselves what they needed to do. (Just mentioned that cos I don't like takin' credit for sumthin I didn't do)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?forumID=783&threadID=790403

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