I'm having real trouble finding a program to allow me to do want I want to do... I want to edit, splice, mash up video... using Divx files/ mov / and mpeg-1. Windows Movie Maker would be fine if i...

also, it looks like Windows Movie Maker can import DivX videos... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/21/faq.mspx

Really strange it says something about that, because Windows Movie Maker doesn't even show the Divx files when going to choose what file you want to import. Then if you hit the drop down to select...

do you have the full divx codec installed?

No idea. How do I find out? I can definately watch the Divx movies. But Windows Movie Maker says it's a file type that can't be imported.

just try reinstalling it from www.divx.com. I dunno, I just tried to import a divx file in Movie Maker in Vista, and it worked fine. But who knows, maybe it's different in Vista.