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Google sitemap error "appears to be an html page"

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    google webmaster tools is saying

    Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

    for http://laserpointerforums.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz


    any ideas what is wrong? it was working before but suddenly google doesn't like sitemap

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    Your sitemap looks correct. It may just be just a hickup in Google's system.
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    thanks for the feedback, i will let you know when/if the error goes away

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    Same error appears to me. Is there anything wrong? How this can be fixed please?

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    All your site map files seem to be correctly loading.
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