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You can download all the rpm files off some Yum reposity manually if you don't like to do it trough yum..the only reason to do that, though, is is you don't have a network connection where the machine is you are installing on. Anyway you could use Yum to do a "dry run" (if I'm right) that prints all the packages to be fetched and installed, print the list and then do the manual downloading - otherwise you're going to have to go trough every single package and check their dependencies yourself, and download (and check) those too, and so on.
rpm.pbone.net and such sites also host rpm packages, but if you're doing this on a system that uses Yum by default, you're probably better off getting the packages off a reposity, since that holds all of them (rpm.pbone.net might not). The version is then another matter; either the reposity is hosting recent versions or not, but it's your best shot I guess..
One route is of course to download the rpm packages - if provided - from the websites of the projects, for example kde.org. I'm not sure at all they host the packages, many just leave them for the distribution maintainers..
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