Firestream

I just reinstalled CoH last night and went to play. I played the tutorial and it won't let me exit until Stage 3 has completed downloading? I see an icon that says 3 with 0%. Is there a way to initiate the download or is it set to download on a certain date? Also, I can't switch to any of my preexisting characters because it requests the completed download of stage 4?

Thank you ^_^