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So you download the video with unplug and then watch it?
Neither totem nor mplayer has any settings that has something to do with your error
The only thing I can think of is HAL which makes requests about twice a second - but that is really far fetched...

You can install Wicd if you wish - we have given it some thought and if I remember correctly it's the default in Cassandra XFCE
If I remembered the commands to stop HAL (and/or dbus) and then start it again I had given them earlier - but I cant find a post that had a long discussion about HAL (in the Ubuntu forums I think)