Everythings apparently working fine now. I think it was a rogue DLL or association or somesuch... I could manually play the movies fine - they just would completely skip in-game... the cursor was jerky - the music was wrong - no girl dancing in the background - etc. I don't know the root cause. Perhaps something I installed since the last DirectX wrote over something else - maybe I uninstalled something that decided to break something as it went out the door... all I know is that it was affecting Windows as a whole as well as many apps. Even IE didn't work right. ???
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