It sounds like you have a very healthy attitude toward your finished vids! I must study and learn from your ways.

I looove to listen to my vidsongs before I start vidding, and I generate a lot of ideas that way, but I have to strike the right balance between over-listening and the idea going stale on one hand, and on the other hand listening so little that I forget the idea entirely.

Of course part of the problem with that is also part of why I enjoy it so much: while I'm listening to the song (but haven't yet started vidding) I'm constructing a head-vid which is perfect and wonderful in a totally ethereal and dreamy way. Which makes the comparison to the first draft --or even the final version -- so hard. Though this is getting less common as my skills improve.