... seems to be totally borked. It downloads a file because its "corrupt", and then stops. After restarting it downloads a new file, then stops again.

To be precise, it always stops after downloading 2467/0KB (seems to be an incomplete download).

To add injury to insult, after aborting 3 times (each time it tried to download a different time), its now not downloading anything any more but if I click on Play Vendetta it just dies quietly.

Does your system Console have any error messages that are from Vendetta?

can you zip up your install (minus the media.rlb) and send it to me?

I sent the url for the tcpdump to Incarnate. And the media.rlb is A LOT more interesting these days than you would think! (Go LightSpeed!)