I gave up...
Then I noticed that UO was not the only thing unable to patch..... seemed my ISecurity program also could not patch...
Everything I tried to download or patch came up saying it had corrupted files... so I went to Norton my Security provider and put them to the task of finding out why everything was corrupted.... wondering if I had somehow gotten a massive virus or something. After 4 or 5 hours on the task a very nice fellow named "Charlie".... had my PC do a CHKDISK.... which seemed to lock up after awhile... I retried it 2X then got frustrated and just left it running...
Somewhere around 2am it must have finished doing whatever it was doing and since then I've found that my Norton is up to date and happy as all get out and I've been able to freshly download the EC *does a happy dance*
However I'm HIGHLY unhappy about the art changes and wish I could puke... So now I'm not sure I wanted to patch the client at all.
Anyway now it's all working as intended ..... and my pc seems happy once more.
Wish I could be about the changes.... but *sighs* What do you do. Fix the uglyness of having my paperdolls all messed up in their clothing ..... and have to see their clothes half on and half off and male clothes on my females and female clothes on my males... or deal with super ugly and disturbing hueing..... I'm not sure which is worse??????
At any rate I'm trying to be happy about finally getting the patch to work.