Wilka's questions

We have some files on our web server, which are valid zip files but are used by another program as data files. However, when downloading these files (by clicking on an href link) with Internet Explorer 8 they get renamed to *.zip so they are no longer associated with the correct program.

Is there something I can do on our webserver, or the html of the download page, that will stop IE from renaming these files?

FireFox and Chrome leave the file with its original name, so doesn't have this problem.

I'm trying to access some hosted WinXP machines inside Virtual Server 2005 RC2 using IE8 (via the ActiveX control in the web admin page), but when I do the mouse cursor behave erratically. A tiny movement of the mouse moves the cursor from one side of the virtual screen to the other, making it impossible to use the mouse.

Is there a way round this, or do I just have to make sure I use an older version IE8 to access these virtual machines?

I'm already using IE8 Compatibility View, and I've tried this from a few machines (Vista and Windows 7 so far) running IE8 and had the same problem on each. Sometimes it looks as though the mouse cursor isn't visible, but I think that's because it's locked up against the right (or bottom) of the screen of the virtual machine.