Never ending 'Cleaning up' downloads

Hello All,
First of all, any help at all is greatly appreciated, so thanks in advance. Anyway, my problem is as goes:
Every time I attempt to download an application, the .dmg of whatever I'm downloading usually downloads the majority of the way, then in the downloads window it appears as if the disk image is still 'cleaning up'. The disk processes through the un-mounting and what not, but continues to 'clean up' forever. Any way on resolving this? I need to download some things and this is very annoying! Thanks again.

Hi Kirk,
Did you try to trash the download.plist
You will find it in this location ... Home_Folder>Library>Safari>Download.plist
Quit Safari browser when running an trash the plist file.
Now open Safari again an try to download the application you like ... Post back with the results.
Good luck ...
Dimaxum

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