I seemed to fix this by totally re-doing my download.php and putting it in my forums directory. anyways heres what i did:
PHP Code:
<?
require('global.php');
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==3) {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
exit;
}
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid]==0) {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
exit;
}
if ($bbuserinfo[userid]==0) {
eval("dooutput(\"".show_nopermission()."\");");
exit;
}
$file_name = "".basename($file);
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=http://www.voogru.com/files/$file\"> \n";
exit();
?>
i love meta refresh hehe

anyways feel free to use it, just change the address, also the to link to the file:
Usage:
if you have
www.domain.com/files/yap.zip you would make the link:
http://www.domain.com/forum/download.php?file=yap.zip
if you have a link like:
www.domain.com/files/coolstuff/yap.zip you would make the link:
http://forums.voogru.com/download.ph...lstuff/yap.zip and ect.
*wonder if this would qualify as a hack

aranoid: