I think you found your own trouble - I'm laughing because the exact same thing happened to me - only with a TechNet copy of one of the servers... Had a buffer overrun crash, and, much to my amazement, the downloader picked right back up when I restarted; burned the iso and went to install it, and it blue screened. Didn't think much of it, tried again, same crash. Wiped the partition again, and installed Win7 to it to check the machine - fine! Wipe again, server install, BSOD! Thought "must've gotten a bad burn", burned the iso again - same thing!
Finally thought to re-download, installed perfectly! You'd think, as sophisticated as the MS downloader looks, it'd catch the problem when it 'final copies' the file - find a CRC error or something, or that the iso burner likewise would 'see' some kind of structural deficiency, but, NO,
you gotta dink around for four hours...