Presuming that it is Firefox that is saving stuff to you desktop, go into Tools->Options->Downloads and set the download folder to something else, i.e. a new folder you create. I'm just clutching at straws here as I'm not a Firefox expert, but that is where it saves stuff on my Linux machine.
Regards
Stoney
Last edited by Stoney X; 16th October 2005 at 21:54.