Any ways around iTunes poor download manager?

Does anyone else get frustrated that a paused download will not resume from the point it had reached - it always reverts to 0Kb downloaded and starts again. This is particularly frustrating to those of us who must still use dial-up or low speed bradband connections. The download manager for Software Update seems similarly afflicted - with many updates it is possible to navigate to a page from which I can add the download to a manager program such as Speed Download. Is Apple working on improving this limitation? Are there other ways around it?
G5 1.8Ghz PPC 1.5GB Ram   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   and 12"G4 powerbook

I have the same problem as well. For many different reasons I keep getting my connection cut and cant resume the download from where it left off. It's getting really annoying especially when you are trying to get a +450MB file.
You would think that the developers would have thought to make sure that iTunes and other Apple apps could resume downloads esp since this has been a feature of most internet apps even as far back as the gopher days!!
I made a previous post about this issue here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=699061&tstart=0
But so far no one seems to have any practical suggestions or ideas. I wish I could simply FTP the file directly--it would be so much nicer especially with a program that has auto-shutdown features and the like.
Anyway, maybe if we squeek enough it will be included in iTunes 7.0.X

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