Win7 Media Center not seing movies in movie library

I have a DV7 that I upgraded to win7 from vista 64bit home premium. Ever since i did the upgrade, my media center does not see the movies i have in the movie library. if i add the same folder to my video library, the video library sees all the movies. I had to download media browser plugin for media center in order to view my movies. The media browser sees them just fine. Just out of curiosity i loaded a clean copy of win7 and the media center has no problem seeing the movies in the same folder. It is only when I do the upgrade, and I have to do the upgrade to keed the dvd burning software that was included / preinstalled on the laptop. what a pain.

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