news servers with way over 100,000 newsgroups can now be used without seriously slowing down the program;
the time needed for decoding pictures is no longer included in the throughput calculations, resulting in a more reliable throughput graph;
on Mac OS X Tiger, the Finder display of the image folders is no longer messed up by a mysterious $$TestFile$$;
on Mac OS 9, double-clicking the downloaded pictures will open them in QuickTime's PictureViewer. On Mac OS X, the default application for JPEG or GIF images will now be used;
on Mac OS X, the application now has the .app extension to make sure the operating system will treat it as a program and not as a Script Editor document;
minor enhancements were made to some status messages.
