[Distutils] occasional zipimport.ZipImportError: bad local file header

[Fadhley Salim]

I'm working on an automatic testing framework which installs eggs
downloaded directly from the web-server. From time to time I get a very
long stacktrace leading to a ZipImportError (see the pastebin link).
Leading up to the error all I do is download the egg into the system's
%TEMP% folder. I'm installing the egg like this:

easy_install.main( ['-zma', '-f' , config.INSTALL_TOOLS_EGG_VALIDHOSTS,
filepath, ]

There is apparantly nothing wrong with the file - I can open it in
Winzip. If I re-run the process it seems to work fine. The file in
question appears to be identical. The error is rare, it seems to occur
in about 1 out of 100 easy_install operations. Any suggestions what
might be causing this? 

Very long stacktrace on pastebin:
http://python.pastebin.com/m378949f3

I am using setuptools==0.6c9 on Python 2.4 running on Windows XP
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