> Hmm...weird. It could be possible that some ISP's proxy cache holds an invalid
> mamedats.zip....so this should get fixed within some time by itself.

> It may happen that the automatic transfer mode has chosen 'text' instead of
> 'binary' for the download and so the zip would be corrupt and the error appears.

> I put an unzipped version of the xml online, try to use
> "http://www.clrmame.com/clrmame.xml" for the url string. I've also reuploaded
> the zip...maybe it works now ;)

Tried to use the URL for the unzipped version same problem as before.
I can download both the zipped and unzipped version by entering the URL in the browser without any problems. The XML in the zip file has today's date. So I would think that it is probably not a caching problem on the ISP's side.
I really don't understand it.