Hello Navyboy,
I believe the steps you took to install are o.k. And I don't think the problem has to do with unzipping. I would guess that something went wrong with installing the developer package form Irex. You might try to install some other Iliad program, and see if that works...
I will try to pm you a small test script later today. that will enable you to check if the developer package is active.
Don't give up