> Turning off the 'near' function made no 
> difference...httrack still jumped sites.  (By 'near' 
I 
> am refering to the 'get non-html files associated 
with 
> link' option.)

Disable ALL default filters (+*.gif +*.jpg and so on..)

This server is just crap, with "200" HTML responses 
to .gif requests, and therefore accepting all "gif" 
files is not a good idea :(