Videos Won't Play in iTunes Under Vista Service Pack 1

While my audio podcasts play fine since installing Vista SP1, the videos do not! I get a badly flickering picture and sound and the control symbols (e.g., the x to close the video) do not show up. Full screen causes Windows to deliver a message that the Nvidia display driver has crashed and been restarted.
I redownloaded and reinstalled iTunes but it failed to fix the problem. The m4v's for these podcasts play perfectly in QuickTime.

There are several you can download at:
http://www.legacychurchsc.org/media/video/
These are also posted under iTunes at:
http://www.legacychurchsc.org/media/audio/legacy_podcasts.xml
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/legacy-church-sermons/id192002529
I just upgraded my 10.5 iSight G5 iMac to iTunes 9.1.1 and the following behaviors occured:
1) The video would not stream properly: you can hear the audio, but the video does not show up (just a greayed out video box).
2) On a version of the video in my iTunes "Movies" tab, the chapter markers are 'one off'; they jump to the position of the next marker. This does not happen if I open the local movie in Quicktime Player (7.6.6).
These videos were composed in iMovie HD 6.0.4 (I know, I need iMovie '09). Exported for iPod. (I don't think this has much to do with it, myself since iTunes 9.1 had no problems with this type of file).

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