diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index e3a0298..8b528a8 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 1.4.83
+####  version: 1.4.84
 ####  Date: April 26 2011
 ########################################################################
 ####  SPECIAL THANKS
@@ -1005,6 +1005,12 @@ error_handler()
 		13)
 			error_message="The -t option requires the following extra arguments (no spaces between letters/numbers):\nc m cm [required], for example: -t cm8 OR -t cm OR -t c9\n(numbers: 1-20, > 5 throttled to 5 in irc clients) You entered: $2"
 			;;
+		14)
+			error_message="failed to write correctly downloaded $SCRIPT_NAME to location $SCRIPT_HOME.\nThis usually means you don't have permission to write to that location, maybe you need to be root?\nThe operation failed with error: $2"
+			;;
+		15)
+			error_message="failed set execute permissions on $SCRIPT_NAME at location $SCRIPT_HOME.\nThis usually means you don't have permission to set permissions on files there, maybe you need to be root?\nThe operation failed with error: $2"
+			;;
 		*)	error_message="error unknown: $@"
 			set -- 99
 			;;
@@ -1129,20 +1135,24 @@ create_rotate_logfiles()
 script_self_updater()
 {
 	eval $LOGFS
-	local wget_error=0
+	local wget_error=0 file_contents=''
 	print_screen_output "Starting $SCRIPT_NAME self updater."
 	print_screen_output "Currently running $SCRIPT_NAME version number: $SCRIPT_VERSION_NUMBER"
 	print_screen_output "Updating $SCRIPT_NAME in $SCRIPT_PATH using $2 as download source..."
-	# first test if path is good, need to make sure it's good because we're -O overwriting file
-	wget -q --spider $1$SCRIPT_NAME || wget_error=$?
+
+	file_contents="$( wget -q -O - $1$SCRIPT_NAME )" || wget_error=$?
 	# then do the actual download
-	if [[ $wget_error -eq 0 ]];then
-		wget -q -O $SCRIPT_PATH/$SCRIPT_NAME $1$SCRIPT_NAME || wget_error=$?
-		if [[ $wget_error -eq 0 ]];then
+	if [[  $wget_error -eq 0 ]];then
+		# make sure the whole file got downloaded and is in the variable
+		if [[ -n $( grep '###**EOF**###' <<< "$file_contents" ) ]];then
+			echo "$file_contents" > $SCRIPT_PATH/$SCRIPT_NAME || error_handler 14 "$?"
+			chmod +x $SCRIPT_PATH/$SCRIPT_NAME || error_handler 15 "$?"
 			SCRIPT_VERSION_NUMBER=$( grep -im 1 'version:' $SCRIPT_PATH/$SCRIPT_NAME | gawk '{print $3}' )
 			print_screen_output "Successfully updated to $2 version: $SCRIPT_VERSION_NUMBER"
 			print_screen_output "To run the new version, just start $SCRIPT_NAME again."
 			exit 0
+		else
+			error_handler 
 		fi
 	fi
 	# now run the error handlers on any wget failure