Piet, indeed I wanted to propose that alternative to you, ( I was the one
who proposed torrent and a download manager to you).
However downloads from rapishare are good only when you have a rapishare
account... otherwise the process of downloading so many files is very
slow... and perhaps frustrating... had I known that you had a rapidshare
account that would be the first thing I would tell you...
There also emule too..... as another alternative p2p network than torrent.
If you are a rapidshare user I would suggest looking into this fabulous
small free app, called rapget
www.rapget.com (press the UK flag to see the
english version of the site)..
This is a specialized downloader program for rapget (and other hosting
services)... you might find it handy...