I'm realizing that I might have the image that was getting used right before the change over.  So I don't know if this issue is really resolved.

I'll update the script and do the download again on my Ubuntu machine tonight and see if the problem exists there.  Would be a bummer if this was the case...

Perhaps you already have the version the script downloads on one of your computers and can check to see if the win7 ie8 box allows users to edit host files?