After installing from the zip files from the windows section, I was greeted with many missing DLL errors. Turns out that all of the errors could be fixed by copying All of the dlls from bin\ to lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\.
I wrote a quick batch file to do this on any new boxes I set up. just drop it in GIMP's root folder and execute it from there.

postsetup.bat ----------------------
@echo off
echo gimp post setup script v0.1 (c) Andrew McCollum
echo send it to all your friends
echo http://www.tgi.net/~andrew
echo hack124x768@yahoo.com
copy bin\*.dll lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
echo done
pause