I finally got around to perfecting my crude .zip file archiving method. The basics: it uses the two best .zip file archivers and mixes the results into one zip. It can be used from the command line (ie. zipocd c:\files\* done.zip; names with spaces need to be in quotes though) or just from double clicking; for simplicity's sake it also has a folder where you can just dump files and give the archive a name. Pretty self explanatory, it's pretty flexible and should catch most errors if they happen. Should work for OS X users too through
DosBox.
Perhaps someone More Awesome Than Me can use it, or pillage it for something else. I've just been using it for my updates/official downloads archive, but it's worked well for .package files too.
Files:zipocd.bat - What you run
7z.exe - has a very good zip compressor.
kzip.exe - best known zip compressor but sometimes 7zip does better.
DeflOpt.exe - removes garbage from .zip files to save space. (it optimizes anything that uses Deflate, so png files work too)
zipmix.exe - compares two zip files, takes files compressed better in one and adds them to the other.
Files 2 Zip\ - just press enter at the folder screen if you dropped files in here.