Now that's odd... ???
I just went to metamod.org and tried... for me, download links worked fine (and I don't even use Internet Explorer, but Firefox). This link here...
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/m...n.zip?download
leads to an entire list of mirrors, and I just randomly picked one - it worked perfectly.
Could something with your browser be wrong? Do you have "automatic redirect" disabled? Are you using a firewall which might have too restrictive settings?
Anyway, if you can't download there, you can try the MetaMod version from Pierre-Marie Baty's site:
http://racc.bots-united.com/releases/metamod-1.17sp.zip
I'm using this version myself, so I can attest that it works well with PODbot.
As for the filebase bug: Yes, I just checked, and I got a "forbidden" error, too. Seems like the filebase isn't back to full functionality yet after the new server setup... but I bet these little "hiccups" wil be fixed shortly.
