Staying connected to network/internet while sleeping?

Hi. To my understanding, when your Macbook goes to sleep it cuts off the connection with your network/internet to save power. This, in turn, kicks you off of IM clients (Yahoo, AIM, etc) and interrupts any downloading you might be doing (BitTorrent, Newsgroups, etc).
Is there a way to have your Macbook stay connected to the internet while it sleeps? Like I like to stay signed on to Yahoo/AIM while I'm not at the computer....is it possible to do that with my Mac? I also download large files at times and like to do that when i'm not using the computer, like when it would be sleeping. Is it possible to set it up so I can do that?
I looked through the System Preferences and couldn't find anything to manually make it so. To get it to stay connected to the internet, would I just have to dim the screen and put my preferences to where it will never sleep? Isn't that bad for the battery if your computer's on a lot? Thanks for any help. Just switched to Macs and I'm loving it.

hi,
you cannot keep internet connection and programs active while your computer is in sleep mode. they intent of sleep mode is to spin down drives to allow safe deplacement of your computer but still but still powering RAM to allow a quick restart that will keep all your data. (ref http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25801)
when you mention that you want to have download going on, it means you need your computer awake and running. in order to have this, the only things you can shut down is your screen (the computer must stay awake) and you can adjust this from then energy saver preferences.
if you have download in progress, your computer will not go into sleep until they are completed. but in order to keep your connection with IM clients, you will effectively need to set sleep setting to never.

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