Lengthy directory transfer and modify time failure

I am trying to download a web site using the transfer queue. I simply selected the contents of the remote site root folder and added it to the queue and started it. Each file seems to first download the directory listing of the remote directory containing the file, before downloading the file. There are several directories in the site that contain thousands of files, and one very large directory listing in the site is 3mb. It is transferring 3.02mb to transfer a 20k image in that directory. So, it takes much much longer to transfer a file from a directory containing more files. Also, transfer speed is fine between this host and my destination, usually around 60k/s. Downloading the directory listing before each file is causing the download of this 2GB site to take days and possibly weeks instead of hours. Is there any way to avoid having to download a directory listing before each file?

Also, none of the files are transferring their dates and times. When I directly transfer a file, the overwrite confirmation window that pops up shows the new file's date and time as "Unknown" and it is stored as the year 1601 on the Windows destination. Is there a reason why the date and time would not be transferring? Perhaps having something to do with the MDTM command failing? Dates and times have transferred successfully with other FTP clients.

The log of one file's queue transfer is as follows:

[20:45:04] SIZE 400000004505.gif
[20:45:04] 213 67672
[20:45:04] MDTM 400000004505.gif
[20:45:04] 550 '400000004505.gif' : no such file or directory.
[20:45:04] TYPE A
[20:45:04] 200 Type set to A.
[20:45:04] PASV
[20:45:04] 227 Entering Passive Mode (12,33,128,123,205,181).
[20:45:04] Opening data connection to 12.33.128.123 Port: 52661
[20:45:04] LIST -aL
[20:45:09] 150 Data connection accepted from 208.101.19.165:3187; transfer starting.
[20:47:19] 226 Transfer ok
[20:47:19] 2935443 bytes transferred. (21.3 KB/s) (00:02:14)
[20:47:19] TYPE I
[20:47:19] 200 Type set to I.
[20:47:19] PASV
[20:47:19] 227 Entering Passive Mode (12,33,128,123,27,93).
[20:47:19] Opening data connection to 12.33.128.123 Port: 7005
[20:47:19] RETR 400000004505.gif
[20:47:19] 150 Data connection accepted from 208.101.19.165:3206; transfer starting for 400000004505.gif (67672 bytes).
[20:47:21] 226 Transfer ok
[20:47:21] 67672 bytes transferred. (47.8 KB/s) (00:00:01)
[20:47:21] MDTM 400000004505.gif
[20:47:21] 550 '400000004505.gif' : no such file or directory.

Thank you very much!
Mox