So,
I've noticed a significant number of annoyances when it comes to viewing & downloading archives on many forums. Since I'm not a platinum member, I haven't seen that here, but it comes down to very irritating delays when you need to fetch even the silliest little archive of pics, like pestering you with that horrific re-captcha (oh how many times do I need to refresh that thing!), after you've already shown that you are a human.
One tool that can help you in those cases after re-captcha is flashgot, an extension for firefox. The latest version has this important section in it's release-notes
As you can see, it will help you to batch manage those archives better.Improved oron.com preprocessing for batch direct link downloads (similar FlashGot-supported preprocessed file sharing services are depositfiles.com, fileserve.com, filesonic.com, hotfile.com, megaupload.com, netload.in, rapidshare.com, uploading.com, uploaded.to, ul.to, zshare.com).
I'm sure a platinum member can echo if there are archives posted here on local file-servers or on thirdparty networks where those annoyances can occur.
Whatever the case may be here, you now have a(nother) valuable tool to help you in the management of downloads on any forum.