Purchased TV Show from iTunes directly downloaded to iPhone 3G not playing

Hey everyone,
I've just run into a weird issue, I just purchased & downloaded an episode of a TV show over a Wi-Fi network directly onto my iPhone 3G running the latest firmware. The download completed successfully, but when I try to play the TV Show from the iPod menu the iPhone gives me 'This movie could not be played' error message, even though everything looks ok.
I am currently on holiday in the United States (not sure if it's relevant but I have an Australian iTunes account) and do not have access to my computer to try and troubleshoot the problem properly.
Any ideas as to why this could have happened or has anyone encountered a problem like this before? I'm a bit peeved because I paid for it and have no way of re-downloading.

I curently have, and have had in the past, a simmilar problem, except that the file will begin to play (in this latest case the first 48 seconds). Then the image will freeze on a frame, the sound will stop, while the scrub bar will still count upward (says that 49 seconds have played, then 50 seconds, then 51, etc). If I try to fast forward, the frame goes black, with no sound. I can rewind to the beginning, and play the first 48 seconds all I like, but always ends on the same frame.
As I said, this is not the first episode with this has happened. I've only ever tried downloading "Hero's". The first time it happened was a season 3 episode on a second generation iphone running the then current firmware. I am currently using an iphone 3GS with version 3.1.2 firmware.

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