SAPGUI 7.10 Installation Server Patching Problem

Hello,
A while back I was having a problem with patching a SAPGUI 710 installation server. A suggestion from the forum was that the version of the SAP Download Manager I was using could be corrupting the patch. So I downloaded and installed the latest SAP Download Manager, downloaded the GUI patch and was then able to apply the GUI patch to the Installation Server. Now I am seeing the same sort of problem with trying to apply the recently released BI and BW patches to the 710 installation server. When I run the SAPSetupAdmin.exe tool, select "Patch Server", browse to the patch and select "Next" to apply the patch, nothing happens. I reinstalled the latest Download Manager, but no luck.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom Grantham

Hi All,
I opened up an OSS message with SAP. The response is below. Changing the extension from EXE to exe fixed the problem.
Tom.....
10.07.2007 - 11:41:28 CET SAP Reply
Dear Mr. Grantham,
There have been rare reports of the latest download manager not
resolving the issue. I have just been updated from a development supportcolleague there is a small issue with the patch extensions which
prohibits NwSapSetupAdmin from applying the patches.
With the patches that you have currently downloaded could you try
renaming the extension to lower case only please (.EXE to .exe) and thenapply the patches.
If the patches still cannot be applied then could you kindly try
downloading and applying the patches for BW & BI from the SAPmats links
below:
BW350GUI710_1_10004473.exe
https://sapmats-de.sap-ag.de/download/download.
cgi?id=AC2WQZ8ABBYCGNF3DY0KU7AXXXX3HWGKL5EF9HHR78DRX8MUYM
BI710_1_10004472.exe
https://sapmats-de.sap-ag.de/download/download.
cgi?id=KZGA233QK8LX12CS3CRZHMXZCRU0BDQVIXBVMFIOZT8P5EOU7M

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