> What I do NOT want are the row of links starting with
> 'Home', or the second line of links starting 
with 'Aviation

What about something like:
-* +www.faa.gov/atpubs/* +www.faa.gov/ntap/*

Note: please also setup reasonnable download settings (for 
example, 2 connections, and bandwidth limit to 10KB/s) as 
the mirror seems to be large.