> It appears that when httrack comes across a Meta Refresh 
in 
> a home page (e.g. to redirect traffic), it thinks that 
the 
> target site has no more pages. Is there any way of 
getting 
> httrack to follow the redirect rather than stopping.

Err.. maybe it's because you did not authorize httrack to 
follow this site? This isn't done automatically (this would 
cause a global WWW mirror in several cases), use filters, 
such as:
+www.theredirectedsite.com/*