My N800 is only a couple of days old but I've hit a bit of a brick wall downloading and installing the Skype.
I fetched the Nokia Internet Tablet Software Wizard and put that on my Windows XP. I tried fetching the Skype installer directly to the phone. It fetched a tiny file of less than a MB and wouldn't install.

The window shows Downloading 1kb and sticks there for literally hours, so I can only CANCEL leaving the application manager not Updated. When I cancel it tells me the Refresh operation was cancelled. Last refresh list is shown. It has nothing in it under Browse installable - just says no applications available.

OK so I see that I have in Main View
map 0.1MB and osso-xterm 0.3mb and tutorial home applet 2.1 and that's all.

I tried fetching the Skype Downloadable installer to my pc and then Porting it to the Tablet's SD card list and that too was a tiny file of unknown type only a few k. It still goes back to the same routine of Downloading 1kb and nothing happens. Have I got a corrupt system or should I have done this some other way?

The Nokia site shows that there are two ways of fetching the Skype installer. Neither of them work it seems.

Can anyone point me in the right operational direction please? I'm all out of ideas on this.
Thanks
Plado

since you said you just got your N800 a few days ago, i would make sure you have the most up to date OS version before you try to install everything. i dont know if any of the N800's released now come with OS2008 out of the box but you probably need to update regardless. reason i'm mentioning it is because when i got my N810, i tried loading Skype and had the same problem as you (and i was already on OS2008 obviously). But then once i did a firmware update, it installed no problem. if i were you, that would be the first thing to try.

How do you do that?

Does it get rid of all your files, passwords, cookies etc?

http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/...ate_Wizard.exe

Thank you for the link, but can someone tell me.

Does it remove my files, cookies, passwords etc?

ARGH!
This is happening to everyone!
This is repositories' fault, it has nothing to do with upgrading to the latest OS2008!
Mine just stoped working, suddenly.

Hoping for solutions from Nokia or catalogues/repositories masters ASAP.