I'm on ubuntu 8.04

1[SOLVED]) I'm looking for a download manager as good as FDM. I've tried, cURL, d4x, downthemall you name it. but none of which got maximum(and stable) speeds when i download from megaupload premium. Or I must be really stupid unable to configure it properly.
moreover, I installed wine to use FDM, but the download frequently gets stuck and eventually hangs the program. When that happens, i can't restart the program resulting in a re-install everytime it hangs...
I'm looking for something that breaks the file into few sections and download them seperately(multiple connections) thus achieving max speeds.
EDITED: Problem solved by using Axel

Theres one more called prozilla it has a GUI but i've yet to try it yet.

2) I'm using compiz with 4 desktop wallpapers. Forget about showing the desktop icons, My desktop wallieS always goes black when I boot the comp.

3[solved with mplayer] playing videos on VLC is pixelated compared to when i was using MPC
an example:


Note: windows media is actually MPC, wrongly labeled.. Notice the difference....
In fact, i actually had this problem on Windows as well. Thats the main reason i never used VLC player before =/ Always loved MPC =)

Note2: I solved the problem by using Mplayer instead. Its perfect and just the quality im looking for, however, i still cant seem to play mkv and mp4 HD files smoothly with mplayer nor vlc

4) My belkin f5d7050 wireles usb dongle goes crazy once in a while. the LED will keep blinking even though my internet activity is null(no data transferred) thus, resulting in slow connection when i REALLY need it to transfer data(surfing, downloading, etc)

PS: Please note that i DID do a search on the net and came up with various solutions, all of which are for older versions of ubuntu. I thought maybe, since I'm on 8.04, some of these problems might actually have been fixed.
PS2: I seem to be solving my own problems one by one..