Transmission v1.76 is too old to handle magnet links which I tried to pass over SSH, transmission starts but no torrent.
The Debian chroot runs transmission v1.22, even older and it also will not do magnet links it is the newest version for that repo.
I think the only hope is to figure out a java client or have someone smart find the almost finished source for the newer v2.03 and v2.12 transmission from OptX that never quite made the repos and then make magnet links work with microb. That work is here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58952&page=11

Taking a break for now, it could be I am seriously wrong in any or all of the above thread, I am a low level hack Linux user not any kind of dev.