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> I tried as you asked, here is the result:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\serge>ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\serge>gem list
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> fxri (0.3.6)
> fxruby (1.6.16)
> hpricot (0.6.164)
> log4r (1.0.5)
> ptools (1.1.6)
> rake (0.8.1)
> ruby-opengl (0.60.0)
> test-unit (2.0.1)
> win32-api (1.2.1, 1.2.0)
> win32-clipboard (0.4.4)
> win32-dir (0.3.2)
> win32-eventlog (0.5.0)
> win32-file (0.5.5)
> win32-file-stat (1.3.1)
> win32-process (0.5.9)
> win32-sapi (0.1.4)
> win32-sound (0.4.1)
> windows-api (0.2.4)
> windows-pr (0.9.3)
>

That means that you remove the cache gem folder? The gem list is only
going to display the installed ones.

> C:\Documents and Settings\serge>gem update --system --debug -V
> Exception `NameError' at
> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:134 -
> uninitiali
> zed constant Gem::Commands::UpdateCommand
> Updating RubyGems
> GET 200 OK:http://gems.rubyforge.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
> Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
> File exists - C:/Documents and
> Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gems.rubyforge.org%80
> GET 200 OK:http://gemcutter.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz
> Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
> File exists - C:/Documents and
> Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gemcutter.org%80
> Updating rubygems-update
> GET 200 OK:http://gemcutter.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gemspec.rz
> Exception `Errno::EEXIST' at C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243 -
> File exists - C:/Documents and
> Settings/serge/.gem/specs/gemcutter.org%80/quick/Marshal.4.8
> Installing gem rubygems-update-1.3.5
> Downloading gem rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
> GET 302 Moved Temporarily:http://gemcutter.org/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
> GET 200 OK:http://s3.amazonaws.com/gemcutter_production/gems/rubygems-update-1.3...
> Exception `Gem::Package::FormatError' at
> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.r
> b:112 - No metadata found!

Can you enter the following URL in your browser, download it to a
location and then try installing it?

http://gemcutter.org/gems/rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem

The downloaded file should weight 279K.

then, from the command line where you downloaded that file:

gem install rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem

If doesn't work, then you're behind a firewall or proxy that is
blocking all the Amazon S3 downloads and is downloading garbage that
RubyGems cannot install

--
Luis Lavena