Hey, I seem to be giving piles of files and have no idea how many. I believe in give and take and the other day I got a "boosted" speed. I thought it was due to my contribution. But apparently not.

I would like to know if there is a way to track total historical downloads and uploads.

WHich Gnutella client program are you asking about? For LW it only gives you stats for that session. You can also view each individual file in the library & see how many times they've been found & how many downlds or attempts for each one. That's in the columns to the far right of the files.