Hello Keith

A great site for just downloading youtube videos (and those on many other video sites) is KeepVid.com. You don't have to download any software. Just paste the URL of your video there and click download. Even better, if you use firefox you can just drag their bookmark link to your bookmarks bar so when you click it while viewing a youtube page, it immediately gives you the download links.

As for converting them to mp3, you might want to try this: http://www.flv2mp3.com/

This might also be helpful if you'd like to convert already downloaded .flv files: http://symbolik.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/extracting-an-mp3-from-a-youtube-flash-flv-download/

yes sure, i downloaded the software u are looking from this url http:www.youtube-video-downloads.org its a very powerfull software and u can download any youtube video in your pc and convert it in any format you want, give it a try because online there are not many software like this one, take care!

That's not freedomware though.

There is also PyTube (just stumbled on it as I was cleaning out my system).

Here's some info about it: http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/pytube-downloadeditconvert-videos-from-video-sharing-websites/

Here is a homepage, but seems to be unavailable at the moment: http://www.bashterritory.com/pytube/

If you're on Ubuntu you can use one of these packages to install it: http://www.getdeb.net/app/PyTube

Cheers