If you bought the cheap box, ie with no hard copy manual, no key template, etc, then you will already have the patch
Go into disk 1 and find a folder called "Patch" and double click it. In there will be a USAF_Patch.exe file. Double click it, and it will self install and Voila! 1.02f
This is how I moved to that version anyway.
That way you can rule out corrupted downloads or updaters (EA updaters are written by the Shakespeare Monkeys anyway :b)
Let us know if that works.
Slim
(Yay! My first useful input!)