ITunes movie download won't sync to iTouch - please help!

I'm sure this question has popped up before. My apologies to those who are irritated by seeing it again.
I downlaoded a couple of movies from iTunes. I can see them in my Movies library. However, when I sync my iPod Touch they don't transfer so I can watch them. I would never have bought (not rented) them if I can only view them on my laptop. The Apple site goes to great lengths to say it is so simple, download a movie, music or more and simply sync your iPod! Sorry, but that just isn't happening here. What do I need to do to get an iTunes movie to play on my iPod Touch! Help!!!

I have to be honest, I simply downloaded two flicks from iTunes and they are older - not likely HD. The first, National Lampoon's Van Wilder is the one I tried to sync several times. The second, Waiting, won't work either. I can play both on the laptop but not the iTouch.
I have spent hours looking for answers to this problem. iTunes sells movies to us and promises that they will work on our iPods. Why not simply sell them in a format that allows that? Apple people...answers???
I located a YouTube video that shows a third party software program that supposedly transfers movie files to iTouch compatible files. The sample showed a file being done but it did not come from iTunes. When I tried to do this, iTunes movies are not shown as files that can be accessed by the program. This is ridiculous.

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I have a 3rd Gen 40gb iPod which was running the 2.2 firmware on Windows XP, which has been fine up until recently. The songs started to randomly skip during playback; this went on for a few weeks. So I decided to restore/reformat the iPod using the iPod updater software and this is where the problem started.
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