I did the above and am now viewing hiiden files. There is no LW folder there at all. This error comes during the installation process, just after clicking "english" so I am assuming the preferences folder has not even been installed at the point I get the error. After the error, the installation aborts itself.

What I can't figure out is why this is such an uncommon problem. It leads me to believe (considering my laptop is new and running the newest versions of everything) that it must be a security setting or a preloaded program that is preventing the installation.

Also, the error says it "annot open the input file for splittet files"so maybe the problem isn't with the splittet files but this input file, make any sense? Probably bating a dead horse here but hoping there may be some insight out there.

For future reference to anyone having the same problem:

Download LW, save it to computer (don't run). Pause Kaspersky Antivirus. Open download and install. Seems the problem is Kaspersky. Worked for me. Thanks LOTR for offering your adivce.

I just got a new PC with Kaspersky.......that WAS the problem. THANKS!

Thank you Niagara Red-I've been dealing with this problem for over a day and a morning, it was driving me crazy. I thought it was Vista because I had Java 6 (which was not suppose to be the problem). I'm glad I came across your messages. Thank you . I will keep other future issues in mind regarding Kapersky.

Thanks for posting this answer. This finally helped my problem downloading.