Saving Media in Safari vs saving in Windows

Hi Everyone,
I have a Mac question: when I go to a link that has a media file, such as an mp3, Safari opens a new page, and the file plays in the browser window. I want to download the file to my computer, so I click on the right down arrow, and I read the message that this is only available in Quicktime Pro. In the Activity Window, the file is present, but the size is 0 bytes. I'm assuming it hasn't downloaded. Is that a correct assumption?
In Windows, I right-click, choose "Save As..." and I'm good to go. Or, I grab the file from the Temp Internet directory. I'm thinking that there must be a similar way on the Mac, without spending $40 USD to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Any suggestions as to how?
Thanking everyone in advance...
PowerBook G4 & iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Here are two more threads with the same issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5163130&#5163130
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1042835&tstart=105
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