hi, any help on the following questions is much 
appreciated:

1. i have a dial-up connection and am not behind a 
firewall, do i uncheck "use proxy for ftp transfers"?
2. since no external links are downloaded by default, 
is the -ad.doubleclick.net/* filter necessary?
3. the help file says a maximum mirroring depth of 3 
means download the current page and pages up to two 
levels below the current page. then does that mean a 
level of 0 prevents the page from being downloaded? in 
which situation would level 0 be useful for?
4. i have a dial-up connection with average speed of 
44kbps...what is the best number of connections for 
me? download acceleration programs that i've tried had 
this set to 4-5, so is this the optimum setting for my 
connection?
5. under flow control, how do i set the program to 
retry indefinitely?
6. should i check "get HTML files first" for better 
performance? if this option is indeed beneficial for 
most users, then i think it should be checked by 
default.

7. are there any default MIME type associations, or do 
i have to manually map everything, including html-
>text/html etc.?
8. under primary scan rule (experts tab), what 
does "store html files first" mean?

thanks in advance,
tom