How to Stop Downloading?

I originally installed Itunes to download some free physics courses from Yale. Like many Windows users, I didn't like the interface at all, so when I found a website where I could download the lectures directly, I stopped using Itunes for it. After that I was just using Itunes for the internet radio stations, which I admit is pretty cool.
Today I found a course on Quantum Physics from Stanford that is only available from Itunes. I tried to download the first course, but it only wanted to stream it, i.e. there was a button to play it, but no download. So I tried subscribing to the course, and it started downloading the 7th lecture rather than the first. Apparently the 7th happened to be the newest one (there are a total of nine).
So I looked around and saw a button to download all of them, and hit that. It downloaded lectures 1, 2, and 9, and then stopped.
So I hit the button again, and it started downloading 1 and 2 again. My ISP only allows limited downloads per day, and these are about 300MB each, so I killed the Itunes app.
Now every time I start it, it tries to download the same lectures I already have again. I don't even care about the other lectures any more, it's not worth the aggravation, but I do want to listen to the internet radio stations without having to download a gigabyte of stuff I already have.
Can anyone tell me how to get the dang thing to stop trying to download files I already have, every time it starts?
Thank you.

Once an item enters the download queue, the user cannot remove it. Contact the iTunes Store customer support department through the Contact page (select the category and subcategory closest to the issue you're reporting and you'll find either an "Express Lane" button - just follow the instructions to get to the contact form - or an "Email Us" button) and ask them if they'll remove the items from your queue for you.
Looks like you can't edit posts here
You have a limited about of time - fifteen minutes, I believe - to edit a post. After that time, a post can no longer be edited.
Regards.

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