> I'm not able to prevent HTTTrack 3.20 from reloading 
> locally deleted files.

Can't reproduce the bug.. the normal behaviour with 'do not 
redownload locally erased files' should be to create an 
empty (0 bytes) file with same name as the one which was 
erased.. if not, please provide a bogus URL, I'll track the 
bug

> Checking 'do not re-download locally erased files' in 
> WinHTTrack has no effect, either: The deleted files 
allways 
> reapear in the mirror when updating.

Reappear.. empty, or full?
> P.S. This and my other question about %L are crucial to 
my 
> recent project in constructing a search engine for pages 
> with *scriptable* physics applets (Physlets) using 

Fixed, I'll try to upload a new release today