> I have tried just the default settings and setting
Don't tell us what you think you tried, always post the actual command line
used (log file line two)

> the max mirror depth to 3 but it always opens the
> links on the web not from my pc
I always run with no external pages=checked so you know where the mirror
ends.

> what am I doing wrong ?site has a lot of robot.txt rules, did you
override?did you use the near flag (get non-html related)
Your starting at a search page, are the link above the starting page and did
you set up and down mode or add a overriding filter.