I think that's an option on the Audible site Becca, that is IF the downloads are coming from audible. http://www.terryanddave.com/Terry "My idea of pure heaven is to spend a day in the kitchen, peeling, chopping, and stirring while the words of a good book fill the air around me." Ruth Reichl On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Becca wrote: > after a couple of weeks of acting perfectly (iTunes downloading my > podcasts at 3am), it has now started back to downloading them > whenever I open iTunes. > > can someone remind me where the magic switch is to tell iTunes not > to do that? and why did it start doing it again even when I told it > not to do so? > > -becca