Ohhh, whenever I download mods I dont save em anywhere specific, I just click open. Saving it to some folder would work then?
Yes. As I wrote in my first post, you should NOT unpack the archive, but clicking "open" is just that. Save the mod somewhere, make yourself an "Oblivion mod archives" folder or something like that. Then navigate there from the "Add archive" dialog in OBMM.
Btw, my downloaded Oblivion mods folder is currently 38.8 GB, though I don't have all of them installed...