Vista - *sigh* nothing but headaches.

Have you tried a different Hard Drive? Tried a drive check? The one you are using might be knackered. Sorry if its new, but you haven't said much about the drive.
Also..have you got the latest bios for your motherboard..some release bios specifically for 64bit problems.

My hard drive is 2 months old.

I'm getting these errors on everything!

I can't even install the SP1 RC Public Availability exe..... Internet explorer is telling me the publisher can't be verified and I click run and it says it stopped working.

WHAT is going on.

I'm so aggrivated. I wonder if this'll ever be solved. It seems because no one else is having problems I'll never know why this garbage his happening

EDIT:

Maybe this will help:

"Windows has found a problem with this file:

name: swflash.cab
Publisher: Unknown Publisher"

and when I try to install the Flash activeX controller on IE7:

"Windows has found a problem with this file:

name: ultrashim.cab
Publisher: Unknown Publisher"


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Remember this is a fresh install, only user ont he computer, I've tried compatibility, i've tried running as admin, etc.

I take it you formatted before installation and also did a chkdisk to bring up any hard faults on the hard drive?
So..if so then...OK..as I said...please take out that hard drive and install windows on another hard drive. That will indicate that it is the hard drive that is faulty. I had a hard drive that was only a day old and it went kaput. I returned it for a replacement and all was OK. They are only components like anything else and are subject to failure. It just so happens that you may be the victim of one of these faulty drives.

It's doubtful, I was using XP not 2 hours ago fine, I occasionally go back to attempt to install Vista and it goes miserably as usual

So to be clear. This is not an upgrade install over XP, this is a clean install on a new Hard drive, yes?
If so, then why not try to install XP on that new drive to see if that installs OK. If not then it deffo is the hard drive thats faulty. If it does install OK, then maybe your bios and chipsets need to be updated to the latest drivers that are Vista compatible.
Another thing..when you attempt to install vista, does it come up with some dialogue saying that there are any incompatabilities..usually pops up at the beginning of installation.

download minefield.....this is firefox x64 version thats wot im using with no probs at all

Eh??

No pop ups or complaints.

I have clean installed XP, formatted and put vista on, formatted put XP on, formatted and put Vista on.

I do have the latest bios, and Vista was working prior with my mobo in any case.

And firefox as I've said is not my only problem. Simply nothing will install at all.

Well to be honest I am clean out of ideas. Its probably so simple as well...but..what it is...dunno. Send a pm to "brink"-the administrator of this site. He might have more ideas. Sorry I cannot help anymore. Good Luck.

I'm gonna ask my buddy if I can borrow his not so legitimate copy of Vista... can I use my legal CD key on that? I just wanna test to see if the discs are the problem.

Since it seems to be linked to .cabs or something.

I mean its worth a shot right?