Quicktime Corrupted Movies... HELP

I went to watch some old videos (of some of my children's "firsts") and when the window opened up the video was purple and yellow and all pixelated! My newer quicktime videos work just fine so I don't know why some of these older ones have all of a sudden stopped working properly. Please HELP!
Dell   Windows XP  

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