I probably agree - I had so many difficulties last month:

I put together a 6 minute 38 second music video (a classic track with some new lyrics, any guesses) for my divisional away day. Did all the work using Moviemaker on my sgi O2. In thinking about output types, I popped it on CD in 3 different 'standard' formats expecting at least one to work under W2k. Utter nightmare - never use avi again, anyway.

Spent many hours downloading codecs and shuffling things around and ended up using Premier to convert to an early QT (might have been 3) and all was finally well.

Old can be good (well I have to say that, I'm in the oldest 50% of my team <sigh>)