Well, I d/led SP1 when it first came out. It was ~20 meg...not too bad. Well, the computer crashed pretty bad, so I deleted Windows and installed it again. This time SP1 was well over 100mb download. Somehow, I got a virus like a week after getting it, and it pretty much killed Windows. Mom was sick of me being online for 12 hours just to download patches for an OS that was as buggy as heck. So I told her it was cheap to buy a CD with it on it, and I haven't had too many worries. Although after this last virus (trojan horse that tied everything in knots), I still had 60 meg of junk to get from their site...
Adam