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It seems that other geeks are having problems downloaded the latest Visual Studio.Net 2005 CTP drop on MSDN.  I had the same problem and used the following hack to work around the problem:

1) Right click the CTP iso link.
2) Select "Save Target as".
3) Open and edit the download html file (Download.html).
4) Modify the FileTransfer.dll query string to point to a different content server.  This is the key that needs to be altered: (ALT=msdn-downloads4.two.microsoft.com) 
5) Double click the edited download.html file.

It worked for me, albeit, I am still downloading the damn thing 14 hours later.