deluge froze nautilus, preventing opening of it

Binary package hint: deluge-torrent

deluge version 0.5.4.1-1ubuntu3
Ubuntu 7.10
Nautilus 2.20.0
Opera 9.24 build 671

Used the widget Torrent Powersearch in Opera to search for torrents and downloading from btjunkie.com directly into deluge via Opera's built-in "filetransfer" (for lack of a better word)
I set download location to Desktop
Up- and download rates to 30/100 on port 6881 through D-Link Airplus 524
During download I couldn't see the files on the desktop, and upon completion I got an error message when trying to open the downloaded file, a movie, via deluge by right-clicking and pressing Open
A second movie was also unavailable
Thinking I had misread the location, or that Deluge was unable to perform the operation and the files were in the /home-folder, I tried opening /home-folder through the upper panel's button Places
Nothing happened. No processor jump, no sudden RAM-usage, no disruption of network, no opening of folders of any kind even if they were on the desktop
Was able to shift between workspaces and close programs and open new ones. All I couldn't do was see the downloaded movies on the desktop and open any folders.

I did nothing further with the problem, such as look more closely at the processes in System Monitor. I did a restart by pressing the door on the upper panel and choose restart.
Only error message upon reboot was my wireless which I have yet to configure properly.