I'm running mandrake 10.0 When I try to download rpms to my disk, i get the following error

Access denied
Could not write to /home/<username>/RPMs/<filename>.part

However if I choose to open the rpm with software installer it gives me no problem. In fact at that point it gives me the option of installing or saving to file, and then I can save it to file. How would I be able to save it to file directly without it downloading first to a temp directory? Any help is appreciated

I am logged on as root in a console, but I dont think that would effect my konqueror downloads would it? I dont get a mssg asking me to login as root while downloading either

Hoping for help

chmod 777 /home/<username>/RPMs/
or chown username.usergroup /home/<username>/RPMs/
should help you solve the problem.
Most probably the problem is that the RPMs directory does not have permissions to write for the username.
for the software installer since it runs as root it gets those and is able to do the same.