When i used to do any sort of video search, it would come up with real player and windows media player sources, now it only comes up with windows media player sources and there are no more real player ones

If you are looking at the icon column this seems to have something to do with what your default player is, I think.
In the bar above the seach window, you should see a column "type" If not right click on the bar and select "type" from the drop down menu. This column will show the file extentions.

(As a footnote.. You might like to consider searching for mpeg and avi files and downloading the VLC player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ )

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I read your advise elswhere about the VLC player so I downloaded it last night. I can't get it to work for me at all.