Zen Plus video - absolutely ridiculo

I can not load video on to my new Zen v plus. I get "the video file is not valid or recognized".
I pulled one of the videos that came with the player off, and tried to put it back on to the player and get "the video file is not valid or recognized".
How the he** does that work?
I can't convert video files into a conforming format:
From the 'creative media explorer' I click on 'convert video for Zen V Plus' and I get a windows error right away:? "creative ... has encountered a problem and needs to close"
The debug lists about 85 .dlls but doesn't say which one has the problem.
- I completely un-installed, rebooted, and re-installed all Creative software 3 times.
- I tried the software on 2 different (new-ish) computers.
- I scoured the online, Cd and print help documents and manuals and have found no troubleshooting tips re:? the non-functional software, or using 3rd party software to convert video files to a conforming format.
I installed "super c" video converter and tried a *bleep* thousand different options - xvid, dvix, wmv, avi, a million different combos of bit rate, fps etc.
I changed the FourCC thingy properly.
This is pathetic, Creative developers, QA and tech support should be ashamed.
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Message Edited by Jason-CL on 07-23-2007 02:42 PM

I have had success with the Zen Vision W using the Zencast Suite. However recently there have been reports of video conversion not working with Quicktime related files (mov and m4v) after an update from Apple to 7.2. Checkout this thread:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ssage.id=42626

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