Premiere Elements 9.0 blank/black clips

I have been using this software for about 2 days now so please excuse my total lack of knowledge. I have an HP xw4400 workstation w/ 4GB, 3 80GB JBOD drives and XP SP3 w/ an nVidia card. Not sure which one.
I loaded an .avi file and added three songs from my iTunes library. Doing strictly linear eding w/ nothing being inserted. Some footage is being cut.
Editing was going fine using the Sceneline view. I have been able to clip footage and drag the in point and out point to edit my clips. Yesterday my system hung, which is unusual. I rebooted and reloaded my project.
Now when I click on an in-point or out point the two views pop up in the monitor window (like before) but now the screens are black on the bottom half. When I finish dragging the in or out point I now have a black/blank section between the clip I just edited and the next clip.
I have rebooted twice and the problem persists. Do I need to re-install my software? If I re-install will that effect my project?

Bill,
JBOD means just a bunch of drives, no RAID. I have PE9.0 and my AVI on one of the 80GB drive w/46.7GB available. My video card is an NVS285 with driver version 6.14.11.6252. I do not see any date information, but the card is probably 3-4 years old. I'm a little nervous about downloading the free software to check the CODEC. But your article makes it sound important to know the CODECs of your files.
I was editing without any issues before the system hung up. I re-booted three times and the second time managed to boot in safe mode and then shut down. I've been told this helps with any issues that are caused by hitting the power button when the system is hung. Could I have some how corrupted PE9.0 when the system hung?
When I switch to time line and move the inpoint the frames that I remove are replaced by a grey bar on my video and audio timeline.Thankfully, when I hit undo all of my frames come back.
I downloaded the latest version of Quicktime and PRE9.0 as Adobe recommended.

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