Mac New Releases fails for me too;
http://download.cnet.com/mac/?tag=hdr;brandnav
I'm not sure what you mean by Popular Links as Most Popular works for me.
I have alerted Lee the Forum Admin about the New Releases problem.
Mark
This page is no longer working. It produces an error message;<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> "Whoops,You broke the Internet!"
<div>Same problem if you try Popular Links>New Releases on the Main Macintosh page.

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