What color is Spongebob's tie? [Puzzle!] *solution posted*

Solution: You had to save the "Schoolbusey" image, and open it with WinRAR or another RAR-decompressing program. The password for the archive was "midnight", which is the answer to "When does the Narwhal bacon?", a question I asked in the last stage of decoding the messages. The RAR file was simply embedded in the JPG! Sneaky, huh?!

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ZZZZZ CQSUH HSNVW CIMVG MULFX VCJTN JHJPI XCBBV HOGGB QWEUD XCPSC
SUPGK FHFOX NORHS BJBVP WDOKW WCVCA UNLQV BSGMM UGBCS MPMSN IBBFX
JUMBX XTDRG PTQGG GNQPF PQUHA WQXGJ LSRMA GPPCG KLERM JLUMX KVVMR
TSMUO LCAGL AIRGF FHVRT NSGDW PJTVO FGRNB ITNJI RSIQO XEGES RNCVM
RKGIP UUNBM SMNVF PHXHT BUWUS LBLNN JVENS XGCXU EUSDL MRRBJ GVPGE
VVMJK WUWQC HSEGC KFWAF PFLFL WSPTI UXBET JXGEP LWELG INASI QKEHM
AXHUF PXMKX HUUQN WMUXR FQXLQ VCCOM UHMHF PITHU FQGCV EDORI JUTTP
CXALM DDADS MLUJM GRTDE CXVKS MXAMK JWTED WKDOS TBFXN PPRCM VPWSK
OVSXH KHMXO JFTZZ YYYYY

Hint: ttp://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/hay

Hint for the hint: This is my favorite shirt!

Also, this pic is SUPER related.

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You have a few days to figure this one out! If I see there are no entries (or very few) I'll start posting hints. Don't give anything away! Also, there are some freebie CD keys thrown in at the end, once you get to it. ;)

The game is Evil Genius.

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Hints:

1) 00110001 00101001 00100000 01001010 01100001 01110110 01100001 01110011 01100011 01110010 01111001 01110000 01110100 00001101 00001010 00110010 00101001 00100000 01000010 01100001 01110011 01100101 00110110 00110100 00001101 00001010 00110011 00101001 00100000 00111111 00111111 00111111 00001101 00001010 00110100 00101001 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101111 01100110 01101001 01110100 00100001

2) .yek si eltit ehT

3) "Better compression, easier use, lower price. All extras included."

4) Said program can open a lot of different file-types, even those that don't seem...related.

5) 31 29 20 53 61 76 65 20 66 69 6c 65 0d 0a 32 29 20 4f 70 65 6e 20 77 69 74 68 0d 0a 33 29 20 3f 3f 3f 0d 0a 34 29 20 50 72 6f 66 69 74 21

6) The opposite of noon is...?