I'm just starting to set up the 2.2.3 community pack included WF-Downloads, and a basic question I have is, where do I put the files to be downloaded? At a location like this?

http://www.mysite.com/downloads/myfile.zip

I've seen other setups where there is a dir off the root, below the public_html folder, called something like "/trusteddir" that files are uploaded into for downloading. But that was another cms and I am pretty unfamiliar with the issues. Would it be better to have the files for download stored outside the public site? How would I ref that with WF-Downloads? IE what the url would look like isn't clear to me.

Also, my site will only have a few files offered for download, is there a way to turn off the "Browse Downloads by alphabetical listing" index (a b c d...) at the top of the page? In fact, I don't even need categories; but those seem to be required?

Thanks