> is there a particular set of command line options that 
> would allow us to mirror only the homepage of a site, but 
> with all embedded elements (i.e., exactly the sequence of 
> information a browser downloads when accessing the 
> homepage of a site without any user interaction, thus 
> including frames but excluding .html's of the second 
> layer).

Try Options/Filters,
-* +*.gif *.jpg +*.png +*.css +*.js