Comment 7 for bug 70423

Unfortunately this version of bittorrent is quite old now, and doesn't have the functionality of other clients, or of the current windows version. This is due to a license change for the bittorrent code which keeps the debian/ubuntu version at 3, while the windows versions are 5 or 6 now.

The functionality you're looking for (managing multiple torrrents, even over a restart) exists in the newer versions only. If you need this functionality, I suggest you install a more current bittorrent client that supports it (there are many, azureus and deluge-torrent both do).

I don't recommend this, but if you REALLY want to use the mainline bittorrent client, you can find .deb packages of the latest version on their website: http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/