>Hi Bill,
>
>Just read somewhere that it also seems to depend on whether you download from the front page (Top Downloads, or something) or from within the MSDN subscriber download page. The first one seems to use the new manager, the second one uses the old new Microsoft Transfer tool.

That may be it. I'm almost done (cross my fingers) with the download on an XP box which I started from the subscriber section. It is using the old DL manager. I think every other time I tried downloading I was on the top downloads page.