I've spent a couple hours looking at YouTube code and videos and have updated my bookmarklets accordingly. Instead of only offering HD and SD download of MP4s this defaults to download the highest available quality of the specified type: FLV or MP4.
They've been tested only on Firefox 3.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.5, but I've no reason to believe that they won't work in any browser on any OS.
Enjoy!
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Update
After doing some looking at YouTube's code it turns out that it is possible to determine which formats of a video exist beforehand so I've updated my approach to use this consideration. These now grab the highest quality copy available in the particular format.
