i redownloaded the file as an HTML and renamed it to zimage. Now it works but what a pain!!!!!!.
thanks for your input though and ill try that next time. I run ubuntu as well and Kubuntu on vmware over winxp. in all three i was running mozilla.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=139738\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
you will get the same problems with all the other modern browsers such as internet explorer and opera as well. all these browsers tell the webservers that they are smart and capable of many things whereas the other less popular browsers tell webservers that they are limited in capabilities and thus won't have these problems. so simple apps like wget always works!
the problems is that these modern webservers (ie apache 2.0 and others) have stupid defaults that can deflate (expand/uncompress) the files on the fly or tell the browsers to do it when they detect that the browser also has that capability. this kind of behaviour should not be the default, but unfortunately it is for all files with unknown mime types.