hi nick & tim — thanks for the suggested workaround, unfortunately i was not able to get it to work.

i've just now tried this with chrome, firefox, and safari running on 10.10.1 … no luck … in the past i've tried firefox & internet explorer on windows 8 (from a boot-camped macbook) & safari and firefox on both mac os x 10.6.8 & 10.7.5 … also from iOS (knowing that i couldn't download but at least to see if the links would activate).