Did you know that you cannot re-install the same version DirectX?
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Just tell windows that the current version installed is a lower version.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectX\\Ver sion
For 9.0c I have a version number of 4.09.0000.0904
Change it to 4.08 and windows (and directX installers) will believe you
have directX 8 installed.
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How do the distorted wallpaper look? Anyway this surely indicates a video problem (GSpot showed no problems with codecs). Did you reinstall your video driver (change it to VGA, reboot, and install the real driver, reboot again)? You can free up your videocard if you play movies only in full screen at low resolution (640*480 or 800*600 with "do not resize video in full screen").