Converting .MOV files into .WMV or whatever for WMM?

[Finnster]

I have a ton of vids of my newer dig cam, but they are all in stupid quicktime .mov format, and windows movie maker doesn't read them.
I've tried converting them to other formats a number of different ways, but nothing is working well. Does anyone have any good ideas?

I've tried SuperC with no luck, as well as a few other converters, and even online converters. The last worked, but was really slow as you had to upload/wait/DL your file.

Any other good movie making proggies? I know there was one by Adobe that otello used to make his cool eagletree data sync'd vids. Any others that are good? I've dl'd a few free ones, and a one cheap one, and they all were a PITA one way or the other. I don't mind buying one if I know its going to work well and continue to be supported (like the adobe.) I've got a ton of vids and I don't want to waste a bunch of time on a crappy program.