Lightroom 4.0: Troubleshooting Video Codecs? Fix grey thumbnails?

Hello.
I just purchased and installed Lightroom 4.0 - excited that it would be able to help manage my videos as well as pictures.
Everything works fine for some of my videos (from my Canon cameras), but older videos from my Olympus cameras (including an E-620 and SP-560UZ) won't generate thumbnails or play. The thumbnails are grey, and have a warning triangle with the message "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this video".
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, and I have K-Lite CODEC pack and just re-installed the newest version of QuickTime.
The video files that are failing are mostly AVI format, and open correctly in QuickTime Player and Windows Media Player so the necessary CODECS must be installed, but are either not compatible with Lightroom or Lightroom isn't finding them.
The Windows Control Panel and K-Lite CODEC pack both have myriad options for tweaking CODECS, but I don't really know what I'm doing.
Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this problem? Either to find more information on what is going wrong, or on how to fix it?
I am very happy to provide more detailed information if that would help.
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Ian

I am having the same problem. Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thnak in advance,
Daniel

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