dark/black and white playback

I’m trying to play this (analysed with MovieCodec tool):
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General #0
Complete name : E:\Salsa\Learn To Dance The Red.Hot.Salsa.-.Salsa.Video.Lessons.For.B.avi
File size : 532 MiB
Format : Audio Video Interleave
PlayTime : 43mn 56s

Video #0
Title : mpeg2avi {IDCT32MMX} '-q1'
Codec : DivX 3 Low
Family : MPEG-4
Codec settings : QPel
Width : 512
Height : 352
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 29.97 fps

Audio #0
Title : Microsoft Waveform : audio.wav
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Family : MPEG-1
Codec profile : Joint stereo
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Writing library : LAME3.92
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44 KHz
Resolution : 16
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I have tried my favourite k-lite mega codec pack, all-in-one codec pack, Combined-Community-Codec-Pack, DivX for windows (which when installed on my laptop, shows the correct video). Basically all the popular codec packs (and making sure that I unistalled all existing codecs on my system prior to installing each of these and trying them). EVERY TIME THE SAME RESULT! The video is very dark and black and white (some colours are completely missing). I don’t understand it. The only thing I can think of is that there is some kind of conflict of codecs going on, but how can i diagnose that and get rid of the conflicting codec?

Overall system specs: Athlon X2 Dual Core, with 1 GB of ram. WindowsXP Pro SP2 with all latest updates.

Any help appreciated. Getting really frustrated here!

another forum told me to reinstall my graphics card drivers after i installed SP2... and yes, unexpectedly, that works. Video is in normal colour now