First off, I have been using WinHTTrack for almost two 
years now.  It was amazing software when I first started 
using it and has had several out of this world 
improvements since.  Thanks Xavier Roche et al.

Just a little background... I am working for a non-profit 
group called the WiderNet Project (www.widernet.org) and 
one of our projects is building digital libraries and 
distributing them in developing regions of Africa.  

We have been obtaining permissions from various web 
authors and spidering their websites to place on 120 GB 
hard drives and delivering them to universities in Africa 
with no or little Internet connectivity.  Many times we 
have made libraries at universities in Africa hundreds of 
times bigger with one 3.5" drive.  Eventually we will be 
updating our hard drives with Satellite forward only 
data.  

We currently have about a hundred different sites and we 
are growing.  

Q:  Can we update all these sites (different project 
files) at once with one script?
Q:  Can we tell WinHTTrack to store cache and settings for 
an individual site in a different place then the actual 
copied site (for example: two seperate drives on the same 
machine) and still have it update the site?  (would have 
one master hard drive with all sites on it and make direct 
copies of it for sending to Africa, no need to send 
overhead files from HTTrack to Africa.)

Q:  If a site we are downloading new links to a site we 
have already downloaded can we tell HTTrack to 
automatically link to our local copy (seperate project 
files)?  

Q:  We have downloaded www.bartelby.com and each page has 
a Java Script that points to an outside link (advertising 
server).  This can do some weird things when there is not 
Internet connectino present and even weirder things when 
there is a slow connection.  We have already had limited 
success with programs that can strip out this code after 
the download.  Is there a pernament solution HTTrack can 
do during the download so we don't have to fix it after 
every update?
We'd also love to hear from any hardcore proxy server 
programmers.  It would be great to have these sites work 
seamlessly on campuses in Africa so that students can type 
in the actual URL of a site and either get the version 
cached on a 120GB hard drive with other entire sites or 
the new page if it has been updated (possibly depending on 
rights/status (student, staff, or faculty etc.)).  

Sorry so long.  Wanted to let the developers know that 
their work makes a difference globally.  Not only a 
difference but it has changed lives and sparked many tears 
of joy!

Thanks,
mike
(feel free to reply with any comments to my email address 
if you wish)