I figured out what the issue was with my little download script.... I wanted to switch to session based variable storage and not POST or GET so I had to make some changes to the scripts... but forgot that the session name is saved in the browser via a cookie... and turning off cookies is bad if you save session names in a cookie. Plus my development server was not a 100% clone of the production one since I moved from shared hosting to a VPS... so yeah... lots of little configuration settings were all screwed up.
Add into that since I sold my laptop (for about 2 years I used a laptop exclusively) and got back into a desktop (needed a new GPW... cheaper to but a PC then a G75SX) so that means I also had to reinstall all my supporting apps... and that's when you find out your backups were not a thorough as you had hoped they would be
I have the fix, and will be updating the script and adding a new issues of AM shortly.