thank you both for ur feed back on the sp2 downloads.. thanks for trying the download.. i tried again and still could not get it to unzip without a corrupt file message.. i tried just clicking on the sp2 exe which read corrupted .. and also using winrar.. either way file was useless.. all i can assume is either theres a problem with my computer and ill have to try download with another computer to test this theory.. or perhaps the isp i have may in some way be afecting the downloads so that corruption happens along the way.. anyway ,best perhaps to try another computer for the download and see what i get.. this is my last post, dont want to beat this matter to death,, just needed feedback a s to whether it was my end or microsoft.. thanks guys. paul