How much time did you give it... if for example you downloaded a 4mb song... that's about 4,000,000 bytes or about 32,000,000 bits of information... 1% of which is 320k bits if your on a modem, you probably only download between 2-5 kbps or 2k-5k bits per second... meaning you would have to wait almost two minutes for one percent to pass.

Hope that helps!

And all you critics out there... I know my math is off... but trust me it's accurate enough to make my point!