Java (JRE) won't install??

While visiting a site, the java applet, on the site would not run. Further browing discoverd that I needed an updated version of the JRE. Having had problems with Java, in the past, I removed my old version before installing the new version.
MSIEXEC.EXE logged the removal of the old version.
FIRST TRY: attempted the "online" install version. After downloading NOTHING happened. Lots of disk activity, but no installation program was run. NO errors were displayed. Tried this twice, same results.
SECOND TRY: downloaded the file for manual install. Download went fine, no problems. Closed browser, ran installation program. AGAIN lots of disk activity (unpacking files?). Same results as before, i.e. no installation program appeared and no errors were reported.
Third tries and onward: Re-downloaded the files from different locations, on the possibility that the files were corrupted some how. All files were the same and were checked to be true copies.
Some snooping around led me to find that the disk activity was caused by the file unpacking an MSI file. Attempted to run the MSI file. It failed, with this error:
*** Begin Quote ****
This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package.
**** End Quote ****
Fisrt Question: (Obviously) why won't the installation progam run?
Second Question: has support for win 9x been dropped?
Hope someone here has an answer. because this one has me stumpted.
Bill

I have been trying to install the latest command line programming JDK, Java SE 6 (any recently updated "subversion" so to say), and have found that the Microsoft Support, today, sent me to Sun and I presume Sun will send me to Microsoft (since, for now, I'm using Windows 98 SE "not supported" blahblahblah) -- Point: I was glad to find this thread x 1 googleplex.
But I don't know if by .old you mean change, literally, the name of the file (using DOS rename command? which I've done, nothing yet ecept message telling me I have to insert the last of the disks first?!?) to MSIEXEC.OLD -- or if by ".old" you meant something else, something prehensile or obsolete MSIEXEC.FOO, in other "words" -- which, if so, I need to know the actual real extension name/spelling of (unless you can draw me a picture.
I have no small amount of urgency wrapping this around my hypothalamus. Must have the command line prgramming tools -- the jdk -- installed. Can not fail. Therefore: thanks again for your help!
I don't know if the Sun forum this is on will inform me of a reply; please, if you have some anonymous way to send one to my email I'd really appreciate it: [email protected] (I already get so much spam I don't mind posting that adress. Yours will be destroyed in a burst of atomic flame as soon as I get the Java SE 6 running the programs in Herbery Schildt's superbly written Java, The Complete Reference.) --A. Zope (I know this's way non-tech writing verbose, sorry.)

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