That helped me to partially see what was going on, thank you very much. Yes, most of the sources were busy, leaving only two to actually download from ... annoying, but expected I guess. I am still not sure why it would act like I was a new downloader and queue me once in a while (make me "wait in line") but I just let the download go and sometime during the day it finished.
It really bugged me though ... trying to download missed episodes of 24 and had a few go wicked fast, less than an hour at 300-400 KB/s, and others take almost 24 hours.
Anyway ... Thanks again!!! That advice will help in the future!