QT7 and Playback of Legacy Home Videos

I recently moved to an iMac and I have a lot of home videos shot with a Panasonic DVD Camcorder, imported with its software and now residing on an external hard drive. All the content appears to have been converted from Windows Media Player to QuickTime but when I try to launch a file it will not open and play. Any ideas on solving this issue?
iMac 24 Intel C2D   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   iPod 80Gb/Nano 4GB/Apple TV

Thanks for the tips. Always good to hear from a fellow Jersey boy!(Smile!) Actually, I'm from CA. Retired here for the wife who grew up in the Burlington County area -- lots of memories and friends for her here.
So, where do I get the QT MPEG-2 component?
QT MPEG-2 Component
MPEG Streamclip
I upgraded to QT Pro, does that cover me?No, Pro just unlocks the editing, conversion, recording, and saving features of the QT Player. (This can be very handy for "lite" editing by the average user and, in the hands of a really advanced user, can do some amazing things.) However, it does not add any new codecs which would allow the playback of additional compression formats. For that you need component installs like DivX, Flip4Mac, the Perian pack, etc. Most proprietary codecs require you pay a liscensing fee for import/export but usually have free player components that allow simple playback in the QT Player. Also the VLC Player is handy for some playback of codecs that have never been ported for use on the Mac or have yet to be released in universal binary.

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    While you can do that, it is not a feature of iTunes.  Put your movies on the external drive, then add them to iTunes by dragging the files to iTunes while holding the option (alt) key down so it leaves the files where they are located.  There are other ways to move them if they are already added but they can be more involved and tricky.  If it's just one or two try:  http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=relocateselected

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