Skype, SoulSeek etc not downloading?

Hi; yes, I tried going into "find" and my search comes up empty; I even went back and did the thing you said about the "visible + invisible", but to no avail. sigh.
Any other ideas?

yes, that is the first thing i did (look in my downloads box, under firefox tools), and the download box is empty except for this one other thing I did manage to get somehow. But skype and soulseek are nowhere to be found. Unless there's another way to check if things are downloading in my browser. But I think that what you're talking about is exactly what I've been doing. It's really doing my head in, cause now I'm worried that I bought a lemon! Any other ideas?!

Hi! Geez, sorry it took me so long to write back- I actually thought I had done that but forgot that for some reason I got distracted the other day and never ended up sending the reply- d'oh!
Okay, so to answer your suggestions:
yes, I am using firefox. When I try to "right-click" (I say this cause, of course, I am not actually right clicking) it gives me the option to "save page as" but not "save link as"; which makes me think it's a dead link or something, but then at the top it does indeed say that it's downloading. So I don't know. I feel like I must have 50 copies of skype downloads nestled away somewhere in my computer but I just can't seem to find them! It's terrible!
I'm not sure how to determine what the extension is for skype or soulseek; here is the link for the skype download page, though: http://www.skype.com/products/skype/macosx/downloading.html
And again, every time I check the downloads box it has other stuff I've downloaded but not skype (or soulseek). I dunno. If you're still out there, I would really love it if you can help me solve this mystery! Thanks again! Pike.

powerbook g4 15" Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Oh, yeah, and one more piece of (potentially helpful?!) info: when I click on the "download now" link, for a split second the screen tells me that the download has been sent somewhere called "speed downloads." However, a search of my computer has failed to find a folder by that name. I don't know. Like I said, I'm totally new to Mac still so I am just barely figuring out how to do the basics! I guess I'm learning the hard way on some of this! okay- bye & thanks again.