Corrupted and failing updates.

I keep having updates failing. I just tried to update my iPod and got a message about the update being "corrupted' (I'd quote the message, but for whatever reason, selecting and copying paste is mostly disabled in tunes. Drives me crazy, why is type in the iTunes Store unlike all other type on the computer?).
Sixteen years of running apple updates and I've never had one fail untill recently. Now it seems to happen about a third of the time. Really irritating with the big OS updates, particularly on multiple computers.
And it happens on multiple computers — I've seen it on my ProMac, two different MacBook Pros and my old MacBook.
Not so much looking for a solution, more just wondering what the heck is going on?
Any ideas?

No chance* it's that many hard drives. Two of those are brand new macs that have no other issues.
I think it's got to be something to do with my internet connection… but I can't imagine what.
I have no issues with other downloads.
I do have similar setups, but one of the laptops was just clean install with CS5, iWork, Office… nothing exotic. The other laptop used "migration assistant", which did cause all kinds of problems.
The iPod update worked on the third try BTW.
It's just curious behaviour… not a real problem, at least until I get forced into usage based billing.
Thanks for the reply!
*Well anything is possable, just very, very, unlikely.

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