> Lets say you're downloading a directory of images
> that updates daily. You only want the first file in
> the list. How might you direct httrack to only
> download the first file and stop? Also, can you make
> httrack only download the newest file in a list of
> files? Either option would solve my problem...

no such options exist.
Best you can do is set the max number of files and hope you get the latest.