apt troubles

[turbo]

Well I decided to try to upgrade to woody over the weekend so I followed the instructions that were given to me by the apt bot on #debian. I changed all mentions of "stable" or "potato" to "woody" in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Then I proceded to do an apt-get update. Lo and behold I get this:
->johngalt:/home/turbo# apt-get update
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Packages
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
->Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages [1015kB]
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/main Release
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Packages
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/contrib Release
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Packages
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
->Hit http://non-us.debian.org woody/non-US/non-free Release
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
->Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
->Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Release
->Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Packages
->Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/contrib Release
->Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Packages
->99% [1 woody/main gzip 0] [Waiting for file]
->3048B/s 0s
->gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
->Err http://http.us.debian.org woody/main Packages
-> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
->Hit http://http.us.debian.org woody/non-free Release
->Fetched 221kB in 1m16s (2885B/s)
->Failed to fetch
->http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
-> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
->Reading Package Lists... Done
->Building Dependency Tree... Done
->W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org woody/main
->Packages'
->(/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages)
->- stat (2 No such file or directory)
->W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
->E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
->ones used instead.

So I tried running apt-get update again and I get the same error or one saying "Error reading from server Remote end closed connection."

[Gaccm]

all that means is that one server could not be accessed. If you do apt-get upgrade it should still work. hm... i just checked the server, its a real important one. You might try changing all your 'woodies' to 'testing' or 'unstable' and it might work. thats just a guess. also, you might try using a different server. 1 line of mine is: deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian testing main contrib non-free (i dont know why mine is different format, but it still works)