(pardon the change in id from "unregistered," but I decided to sign up for this forum)

thanks for the info -- as long as I know there's nothing to do about the downloads I can live with it 'til it's addressed in some future version.

Though I wonder -- would saving the downloads.dat file before quitting and replacing it after restart (in a case where they had disappeared) do any good, or just cause trouble? May give it a try.