ITunes installation package could not be opened

I have tried this after deleting internet files, etc., as suggested. Nothing helps so far. The full message is:
"This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the applikcation vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."
I am running a new, clean installation of Windows XP Home Service Pack 3
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Ed

Thanks for your interest in this problem. Last night I decided to solve the problem by the "brute force" method and I blew everything away and re-installed Windows XP and the download worked perfectly. I suspect that the real problem was with the earlier Windows installation (a full install done by a technician following a disk drive replacement on my laptop).
Thank you very much for thinking about this problem. It was certainly an odd problem and one that I have never run into before, where Windows didn't even recognize the file as a legitimate installation file. Hopefully it was a one-time anomaly and it won't happen again.
Cheers!
Ed

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