Need help with Adobe Premiere

[Chromium Bass]

I have Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and I'm having troubles with importing .AVI files.  I'm sure it's a matter of codec but there in lies the problem for I can not find which codec I need >.> .  Here's what happens: when I import an .AVI file it only imports the sound and only about 3 of the 23 minutes worth too.  Now trying to solve the codec problem I downloaded DivX.  Slight victory from this, now instead of the 3/23 of sound I get 3/23 of video.  This is where my lovely x86 come in, help a poor man out  :P :D

([off topic] Sidoh give me a call or whatever today cause I ran out of my precious soda and require a trip to the store so you are free to join me on my quest)

[while1]

It could be that the video was encoded poorly.