MY PHONE IS BACK!!! thanks everybody! I purchased a micro sd card reader and had to change the settings in safari to not automatically decompress zip files. I am back and running UD 8.0! im soo happy!
sorry, i got an micro sd card reader and took the sd card out of my phone and mounted it on my mac. i did some research and found out that in the safari settings (my browser) there is a setting that automatically decompresses the zip file, so that was why i was having errors installing before. my phone worked in the outlet so i booted into recovery and installed it. rebooted and felt like the weight of the world was off my shoulders when i saw the ultimate droid logo! thanks for the help man.