DaftHonk

I've run into a problem using uTorrent with my external harddrive. As I have a laptop, I have been downloading files directly to my external drive. However, I have experienced occasional freezes during download, and repeated freezes during re-checks when the program attempts to resume the download. For now I have chosen to return to version 1.5, but wonder if there may be another way around this? I have also considered the following two other options: 1. disabling write caching on the external drive (optimizing for performance vice quick removal) 2. downloading to the internal drive then having uTorrent move the files upon completion. Not sure if there could be some other fix for my problem. I really did like version 1.6 and would like to re-install it. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.