> Thanks William. When I do that, it appears to run,
> but then after about 15 seconds, it just stops
> running:
I already said that I don't use httrack so I can't be very helpful.

I follow my instructions on one of my mirrors. Had several -*.gif[<9] needed
to change to -*.gif[^<9]

Also added to the end -vz do get info/debug output to console.  Ran fine.

> It leaves behind a hts-in_progress.lock file, but it
> is definitely not running.
not used by httrack, left over from a previous winhttrack?
noticed cookies.txt and hts-log.txt are not updated. adding -b1 didn't
change.