it doesn't matter if other mods work when unzipped with winzip or not, that proves nothing and yes some mods wont have issues but most will and all I can tell you is mods unzipped with anything other then 7zip can and often do have files missing or corrupted that cause all sorts of issues.
I can only try to make you understand but if you don't want to hear this, what more can I do
as for finding the download, im not sure what is going on with the aces of the deep mod team. for whatever reason they didn't upload their mod here for members to be able to download it so if the links don't work anymore I guess the mod is just lost to us unless someone can upload it to our servers here to preserve it for use by everyone who wants it.
at least for now, this is a working link to download FOTRS -
http://www.gamefront.com/files/14694...the_Rising_Sun