Problems with .avi videos on my iMac G5

I recently purchased QT Pro while on vacation while on my G4 iBook laptop. Everything worked fine with it and I was able to use it's editing and conversion features to make exported DivX .avi videos as well as .mov files which all play without any problem on my laptop. I also made an iMovie from several clips with graphics added. All the files, including some .avi stunt-kite flying videos that had been previously downloaded to my laptop played without any problems in QT on my iBook.
I returned home and copied the video files that I made with my Digital Camera along with the edited and converted files to my iMac G5 computer. I also entered my registration code for QT Pro to my G5 which was excepted, adding all the editing/exporting/saving features that QT Pro offers now to my iMac. The copied, original .avi files which were downloaded direct from my digital camera to my laptop...as well as the converted .mov files I made in QT Pro on my laptop all play fine in QT Pro on my iMac. So does a newly 'saved as' .avi file made on my iMac after installing QT Pro. I tested it with one of my original .avi files from my digital camera.
However, none of the .avi files that were previously saved on my iBook will play on my iMac. Neither will any of the previously downloaded .avi kite flying video files that were already on my iMac computer. Now.....all I get is a white screen in a new QT window when I try and play those videos. Those same files, all play without any problem in QT Pro on my iBook and those kite videos had played previously on my iMac without a problem.
I also have VLC Ver. 0.8.5 for Mac installed on both, the iBook and iMac. The .avi files mentioned play on my iMac through the VLC player but I can't understand why they wont play with my QT player just like they do on my iBook. I tried deleting the QT preference files on my iMac and tried replacing them with a copy of those preference files from my laptop but that didn't help.
Why wont these same .avi files play on my iMac?

Thanks for your help. I compared the two different computer files (HD/Library/QuickTime) and saw that I had the 'DivX 5.component' was in my laptop folder but not in my desktop folder. I also found that DivX had an updated version of their codec at http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ and downloaded that version (DivX 6.5) and installed it. All my old and new '.avi' files are now playing without a problem on my desktop.
Thanks very much for your help. I had suspected that the DivX codec might be the issue but wasn't sure. I also saw some negative feedback on versiontracker.com, so I'll keep the older version, DivX 5 codec on my laptop (since it seems to be working fine) just in case I need to switch to the older version on my desktop!

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