OK....%total-downloads% seems to be the total number of downloads by HFS altogether ... not related to a particular file in any way
which brings back to original question :
%item-dl-count% : Number of hits for a file which means 3 threads of download using an accelerator get counted as 3 and not 1
: Counts unique download requests irrespective of number of threads from client side
This is my dilemma...not sure if this is already builtin or if can be ?