From what I understood, reserving your copy downloads it and then you can install it whenever you want. If that's the case, may as well download it and have it, even if you don't install it, in case you want to later.
Looked into the DL on wiki, you can only go retroactive to 10 days, I thought it was the full 60. So when you put them on you have to know they're gone for at least the next 50 days. Guess it makes sense to not put them if you think he may come back before 50 days
In the end I guess not, but then again I am the type of person who does things earlier so I won't forget to do them later when it actually needs to be done. Guess this just fits into my why wasn't it already done train of thought. But like you said, doesn't really matter now. Maybe it was AA's excuse to get rid of Valencia, by having Saunders take up a 40 spot.