IMessage BETA won't mount?

Trying to install the beta of imessage for mac but when you open the folder rather than having a 'box' its just a plain white paper thing and whenever i click it it just opens in system profiler or disk utility and cant do anything with it. ive update all software and ran repair permissions on my HD but nothing seems to work. any ideas?

and yes i am running Lion for those who ask

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