Media Player 9 Codecs no good...

I would go and uninstall your media player and then go and
download media player 9 first install it and reboot, then
go and download the codecs, install, and reboot this
should solve your problem, if not then try reinstalling
windows again.
-----Original Message-----
Hey all. I try to play certain media files (avis and
mpegs for example) with Player 9 (all updated and even
downloaded the codec packs off the site), but apparently
these files require different codecs.

Every time the player tries to download a new codec, it
tries to connect to the "codec server" but it always
comes back with an "Error downloading codec" message.

Usually it then begins to play the soundtrack of said
file, but not the video, it just starts playing a
visualization!

Any fix for this? I upgraded to Windows XP (clean
install and everything), so I wonder if that's the
problem. I previously had Windows ME and Media Player 8,
and all my movie files ran fine then! Argh.
.