This is part of what I sent in IM to another member... it will give you some things to try. ********************************* Is it all and any Free Stuff from the free stuff section? Or any downloads at all (sometimes a thread will have downloads linked in it... Ockham, Baument, Geralday, SAMS, EdW, all come to mind)? Or any downloads from the Poser section of Free Stuff (but other sections might be ok)? Also, how full is your destination drive? I use WIN98 and it kicks up if the desktop is crowded or my swapfile is full. You might try downloading one of Ockham's scripts from within a thread and maybe a fractal or PhotoShop brush from the 2D section of Free Stuff... trying to isolate the problem by going for small items. If you can nab the little files, it might be a pipline problem... timing out? That will give you some things to try while I run the query down at this end.