> I've been trying to download a local copy of
> www.stairwaytohell.com, excluding the forums section
> (www.stairwaytohell.com/sthforums/). The HTTRACK
> operation finishes in less than one second and says
> "Mirroring operation complete" but nothing is
> copied.

Off course not. Look at the source - there are no links on the page that HTT
can see<quote>

if(pageStr != null) {
	page = pageStr[0].substring(6, pageStr[0].length);
	// change all comma's back to slashes
	page.replace("/,/", "/\//");
}

document.write("<FRAMESET COLS=15%,85% BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>");
document.write("<FRAME SRC='menu.html'  NAME='Menuframe' FRAMEBORDER=0
MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 NORESIZE>");
document.write("<FRAMESET ROWS=0%,100% BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0
FRAMEBORDER=0>");
document.write("<FRAME SRC='banner.html' NAME='Bannerframe' NORESIZE SCROLL=NO
MARGINHEIGHT=0 MARGINWIDTH=0>");
document.write("<FRAME NAME='Bodyframe' SRC='" + page + ".html' SCROLLING=AUTO
FRAMEBORDER=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 MARGINWIDTH=5>");
</quote>

HTT can't handle it.
Stupid webmasters, if they want search engines to spider their site they
shouldn't write such junk.