A couple of thoughts:

1. This sounds similar to bug 505861, but I'm not sure yet whether
they're related.

2. If settings.json is somehow corrupt, Transmission may be using your
home directory as a fallback value.  Eric, could you please run your
~/.config/transmission/settings.json file through a JSON parser (such as
http://json.parser.online.fr/) to check for parse errors?

3. Does this problem persist when you use Transmission in the guest user
account?

4. Are you using a new install of Lucid, or did you upgrade on top of
Karmic?  *If* this is the same as ticket 505861, it's possible that
Transmission or GTK+ are eating the last subfolder out of a path.. that
is, it's possible that 505861's /home/shankao/Download is being
truncated as /home/shankao, and your /home/yourname is being truncated
as /home.  The user in ticket 505861 reported upgrading Lucid on top of
Karmic.

5. To test the theory in the previous bullet item -- if you tell
Transmission to save to /home/yourname/Desktop, does it try to save to
/home/yourname instead?  If you tell Transmission to save to /home, does
it try to save to / ? etc.

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