--- index.php	Tue Sep 14 18:40:37 2004
+++ index_sprws.php	Sun Sep 19 11:52:02 2004
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@
  *
  */
 
+	// Capture possibly rogue whitespace to ensure .t3x integrity; see extBackup()
+ob_start();
 
 unset($MCONF);
 require ('conf.php');
@@ -1696,7 +1698,8 @@
 				header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
 */
 
-				// ANYWAYS! The download is NOT always working - in some cases extensions will never get the same MD5 sum as the one shown at the download link - and they should in order to work! We do NOT know why yet.
+					// clear output buffer: get rid of any trailing whitespace after the final ?> that may be in any of the required/included libs
+				while (@ob_end_clean());
 
 				echo $backUpData;
 				exit;