Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Here is my command line:

C:\TDSContentGrab\WinHTTrack\HTTrack --urllist 
C:\TDSContentGrab\urllist.txt --cookies=1  --user-
agent "Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 
98)" --proxy localhost:5865 --language "en, *" --
path "C:\TDSContentGrab\capture\tdsnetgrab","C:\TDSContentG
rab\capture\tdsnetgrab" --assume 
php3,php,php2,asp,jsp,pl,cfm=text/html --quiet

My urllist.txt file has 2 entries in it:
+*http://www.xyz.com
-*httpL//www.xyz.com/downloads

i.e. I want to exclude the entire downloads section. I 
always end up with 2 grabs, one that contains the entire 
site (including downloads) and one that just contains the 
downloads section.

I thought the minus "-" was supposed to exclude the url 
specified.

Any help would be appreciated.