Videos not playing in iTunes

I cannot play my videos in iTunes 7.0.1. They are purchased via iTunes on my G5 tower and I used to be able to play them on my MacBook Pro laptop before I uploaded 7.0. I can view the videos and high light them but when I press play, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Also, the videos will not upload to my iPod (it says that I am not authorized). I'm assuming that once I can get them to play in iTunes, the iPod problem will be fixed.
Any ideas?

Thanks for the tip. I tried downloading the latest QuickTime and it keeps freezing mid-download (this is not an internet connection issue). I thought updating my OS might help, so I attempted to download the latest OS 10.4.8 and that freezes mid-download as well. Why is it that I can't download anything?

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