Can anyone suggest a good DL manager that will work with firefox and allow me to save different file types to different folders, like all my torrents to one folder, and .zip to another.
use this firefox addon and you can use almost every download manager.
FlashGot is the free Mozilla / Firefox / Flock / Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
FlashGet is a leading download manager and has the highest amount of users on the internet. It uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features. FlashGet is a freeware without any adware or spyware.
Free Download Manager, It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite mp3 files, software, picture collections, video, etc. Unlike other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no banners, no spyware.
DownThemAll is a great plugin for Firefox.
It is a download manager and allows up to 10 simultaneous download connections to speed up downloads from those sites that limit bandwidth. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
Extremely easy to use with the right click menu.