Wow, they should really post that tip on the Oboards. Seems like every patch, the downloader gets worse and worse. Come to think of it, I'm going to go post a suggestion that I hope they listen to to the effect of having an option in the downloader that says "Use X program to download file".
edit:BTW, as a side note, thought I'd mention this for anyone doing this and has no idea how to use the patch file (it's been a long weekend, had to think for a second on it), it's made to just copy the patch folder into your worldofwarcraft folder (correct me if I'm wrong, btw, but that should be right....)
Edited, Dec 26th 2006 12:15am by CrimsonNeko