can't load media into Windows Movie Maker storyboard

Windows Movie Maker (version 6.0.6000.16386) runs OK on my Vista Home Premium
machine and I can import media into a collection and view it in the preview
panel, but when I try to drag an item into the storyboard the item does not
appear there. I have tried .AVI and .WMV movie files and .jpg stills but
cannot load up the storyboard or timeline.
I have run a registry cleaning tool and also run WMM in safe mode with no
success.
My PC is a DELL Inspiron 1525 with T7250 Intel Core 2 duo 2 GHz processor.
I've searched the Windows community discussion groups but can find no other
instance of this problem.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Hi Jspira,
I saw you are having a hard time dropping your media into the
storyboard. My name is Lindsey and I work with the Windows Outreach
Team. I was looking for a solution for you and one thing I thought was
I wondered if your OS is all up to date. Have you updated your Vista
and Windows Movie Maker? Sometimes this will help solve those little
pesky problems. If that doesn't help let me know. I will keep looking
for a solution too.
Lindsey
Windows Outreach Team


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LindseyMWinTeam

Thanks John .... Firstly I copy the video onto a CD then I am using
'IMToo DVD to WMV converter' to change it into a WMV file.

What's interesting is on Vesta it would only show one chapter so I went
back to my other laptop which has Windows XP and all the chapters came
up, perhaps it's something to do with Vesta?

Cheers Pops


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Popeye33