i got a new laptop for christmas and DLed Broodwar. Installation was fine but when i tried to join multiplayer i got the error storm_error_requires_upgrade. What do i do ?

How did you DL Broodwar?

i just clicked the installed button when the disk started up. and Broowar and orginial uploaded fine. i just keep getting the error when i try to update battle net

Mmkay. You installed it, you didn't download it.

Try patching manually:
(http://www.blizzard.com/patches).

If your running Vista as your OS just run as administrator and it will work fine.