Is this behavior normal?
 

Nearly all of the items I click to download are at 0% and theyve been at 0% for weeks on end. Its not like its just one file, its about 30 or 40. The ones that arnt at 0% start downloading until they get to a random point and then stop.
All my bandwidth settings are set at maximum, total global connections is set at 99, maximum connections per file is set at 25.
Its not so bad with music files, in fact its pretty good with music files, but with video files, Im lucky if I get one complete download a month.
Is this normal behavior? Is there anything I can do to get it working more smoothly?

Surely all the files I selected for download cant be so obscure that I cant get a download

Likely the files you are looking for dont have enough sources...
Try to find more sources by searching...