Well found the thread I was thinking of before. It seems that somehow I forgot that Pointmans downloads.dat file was just fine and he had copied it as well. So sorry about wasting your time with that copying thing:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...021#post222021

But just incase it is that . - thing try opening the Downloads.dat folder using wordpad or something like that and have a look

Also newbee2 had some success with this (involving changing the prefs somehow:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...306#post250306