Thanks for your help. At least I can talk here without getting in trouble so far
You guys have been helpful. I'll check back in tomorrow.
I think it would be awesome if someone figured this out, because then I could write a tutorial on how to do it. In the old days ffmpeg would fix this, but they did away with ffmpeg and updated to some new confabulation that took it's place. It doesn't make sense that so many people have this issue, and commercial solutions are the only ones available. I'd think adding the meta info for the file, would be all you would need to do, but there seems to be no way to do that. VLC repairs AVI files, but not mp4. Grrrrr. No wonder Mac wanted everyone to use that format, only commercial software works.