The WoW forums have been up for like 6 year and they still haven't calmed down. Good luck.

The magenta crystal artifice pattern drops off of the world boss on Belsavis. It dropped for my friend a few days ago. The only reason Windu's lightsaber was purple was because Samuel L. Jackson wanted to stand out and requested that Lucas let him have one. That's the way it should be, honestly. I like WotLK's method of letting you get gear one tier behind without raiding though. No reason people can't EVENTUALLY get the great gear. With that said, crafting is a bit useless right now. You can't create gear that's on par with the really good stuff and orange gear makes low level patterns useless.

I've had implied sex with two women already and I'm only level 30. One of them even gave me 150 dark side points for doing it. Not sure why... Give the ladies their romance!

Downloading at 5mb? You'll be fine. It shouldn't take that long. My download was buggy as hell and it kept forcing me to re-download the entire game. It would finish the download and then say there was a problem with some of the files and to run the repair tool. Every time I ran the repair tool it decided to re-download 11GB of crap.. Over the course of about 2 days I think 100GB of data moved through my cables and that was at 3mb. It shouldn't take you too long.