3dsmax5 Help?

[echidna]

i finally got 3dsmax5 installed
and now when trying to start i get this error;
3dsmax performed an illegal operation blah . . .

3DSMAX caused an invalid page fault in
module AC1ST15.DLL at 017f:65fe1e3b.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=017f EIP=65fe1e3b EFLGS=00210246
EBX=bff77716 SS=0187 ESP=025ef610 EBP=025ef7dc
ECX=00000000 DS=0187 ESI=011cf670 FS=6d67
EDX=bff7024c ES=0187 EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 10 8d 4e 04 8d 7e 14 89 11 8b 50 04 89 51 04
Stack dump:
00000001 011cf7f0 011cf7d0 64616f4c 7262694c 41797261 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

followed by;

3DSMAX caused an exception c06d007eH in module EMPROXY.DLO at 017f:65a25625.
Registers:
EAX=025efc44 CS=017f EIP=65a25625 EFLGS=00200246
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=025efc08 EBP=025efc38
ECX=e6848f30 DS=0187 ESI=65a26e0c FS=6d67
EDX=81b96e34 ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 45 f8 e9 ff 00 00 00 57 ff 76 08 ff 15 18 60
Stack dump:
00000001 00000000 65a20000 00000024 65a26e0c 65a29808 65a26db0 00000001 65a26fb2 00000000 00000000 0000045a 025efc70 65a252e6 00000000 025efc14

if anyone knows and can spare the minute please help
i'm just about ready to quit trying to learn to draw 3d
thanx in advance

[0rang3]

The download may have been corrupted. Although the file is huge, you should download again.

[echidna]

most of my downloads are corrupt these days
i don't know what the deal is

[Skillian]

Don't use auto search more so much that you get disconnected - that almost always results in a corruption.

[echidna]

the auto search more might be it
is the resume between sessions OK though? i thought that would look after supenode changes?

[Skillian]

I still seem to get corruption there too. If I'm really looking for a corruption free download I start it downloaing and don't close the program til its finished.

[MagicNakor]

If I'm looking for corruption-free downloads, I don't use Kazaa.