well... what can I say. It did... and maybe twice though the 1st time I paid less attention. This time it was irritating. it wasn't an old article... maybe less than 24 hours. I sure as shit saw the rars being downloading as I was anticipating the completion, and lo and behold when I came back later on, it was finished: 100%, though nothing was left in my download folder but the .nfo (usually just the extracted file and .nfo as I exclude .sfv, sample, etc.).
Anyway, I'm not making a feature request, I just assumed the feature was already there, but I was missing it somehow. If i experience the problem in the future and it becomes bothersome, I'll switch clients... I've used xnews, grabit, newsleecher, and newsbin in the past so nothing new there.
Thanks for your prompt response!