Verification failed! codec overrun!

So this is a brand new MacBook given to me yesterday as a Graduation present. I haven't been able to download anything (such as MSN messenger for Mac and Firefox for MAC, both of which have been downloaded from Apple website). I have tried probably fifty times. Each time I get the same error message 'verification failed' and then 'codec overrun'. I've called Apple three times today, and had to reinstall my software three times. Nothing has worked.
The Mac people don't know how to fix it.
Help anyone???

I'm getting this same error, from Firefox AND Safari. I'm using a TiPB/867MHz with a gig of RAM. I did the archive install (which mucked up my Apache2/PHP install, but that's another story), I did AppleJack.
Once I did the "downgrade" from 10.4.11 to 10.4.6, I was able to download the two Java updates (20 and 36MB - ????) but I can't download the 10.4.11 update at 186MB.
I also can't download things like Plone, iWork '08 demo, and a lot of other things. BUT I went to my Intel Macbook and the same links download fine.
I thought it was bad RAM, but I ran Techtool and everything checked out OK. Applejack didn't find any problems either.

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