Just a heads up, after downloading the image numerous times (probably 6, once through bittorrent, 3 times over ftp, and 2 over http) and constantly getting a "image is corrupt" error, the image would not pass validation on my 64 bit version of Vista ultimate, but worked fine on my 32 bit laptop.
I feel dumb for not thinking of it first, but i copied the folder i got through the torrent over to my 32bit vista laptop, both using the same version of Acronis (i actually use it for my own data backups/OS restore) and it worked. I searched for this problem numerous times and found nothing on it