So, went about setting up the video today on the new machine. Grabbed the k-lite. Loaded up my collection of AMVs and went testing...
a good chunk didn't play. Mostly xvid stuff. I shrugged and went and downloaded divx and an xvid codec. No good, but gspot said I was fine. Appeared to be a winamp issue, so I reinstalled that. Still no good. At random I start googling things and come across: http://www.kickassanime.org/wiki/index.php?title=Compack#Latest_CCCP_.28aka._Download_Here.21.29
Uninstalled the stuff and tried it out...now everything works. Figured I should toss it up here for others. It's got some neat things on that page anyhow as regards checking out what is installed easily.
Dracos