Help with Video Editing...

I am uploading vids from my little Kodak Easyshare camera and it automatically saves the video in QuickTime format. I can upload these vids to YouTube, but I want to be able to edit the videos in the simple way of cutting chunks of footage out, off the end or beginning, and I can't figure out how to do it for the life of me. I have Windows Movie Maker that looks like it would do it for me...But it won't let me import QuickTime format video. There has to be an easy...Free way to do this? Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,:)
Joe