I agree that it is painful, but I don't think it needs to be that painful. I just downloaded both files again. (I have done this many times, as part of testing and helping on the forums.) By "templates ," I assume you mean the basic library, Encore and Premiere styles etc. 734 MB. It took me 35 minutes. I have a DSL connection testing today at 11Mbps download, and the download (from the blogs.adobe.com btw - don't know why these files are hosted there), is only running at 240 - 360 KB/sec). The full Encore library is 2.7 Gig. This took 2 hours 8 minutes. I don't know why yours are taking so long, but I hope you only have to download them once!!! Let us know.
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