Alright, i have attempted to download it on a different system, and once again the md5 did not match.
i could see how it might have been my computers memory being a problem...this computer has had a fair amount of viruses and it wouldn't surprise me. but no i tried it on a computer that has gotten limited use and no viruses. its gotten a new cpu, memory, and powersupply fairly recently.

the only thing i can think of is possibly it has something to do with the fact i have to go through my college's network and that might cause a problem?

just to make sure i'm doing the md5 thing right...i downloaded L6Checksum to test it. i dragged the md5 file onto L6checksum and also opened the md5 file in notepad. is this the correct way to check them or am i doing it wrong?

thanks