Anyone here familiar with FLIP Video Camcorders?

I have a FLIP. I also have a SONY VAIO Laptop. I can dump videos from my Flip on to my laptop however I cannot open them to edit them so I am stuck with whatever I capture. Tonight I visited the Flip website and downloaded the latest software update which is called Flipshare. This is supposed to let me edit my videos but I can’t! Is it because Sony blocks these applications in some secret form or am I just not getting it? All you need to do is drag your video on to the flipshare software and when I do this it goes to the little “x” over the file letting me know that I am doing something wrong, but what??? Errrrrr!