I finally managed to download a good version a few days ago.
eyeborg: I think you may have just got lucky and it just happened to be when you'd given up saving the file first - when it was failing for me, attempting to run the install without saving it first caused it to come up with a security error (missing certificate I think from memory) - I think the person who mentioned earlier about "Unknown publisher" was onto something there: that's definitely one difference between the version that works and the one that doesn't.
I don't know if dud files were being cached on a proxy server somewhere or what, it was very strange.
But all's well that ends.