> CD has to be burnt so that it can be used on a Mac so I 
> need to use the 8.3 filenaming standard. I have done 
> several tests with HTTrack and dont get the results that 
I 
> would expect.
> Am I to assume this is a bug, or is there some thing I am 
> missing??
Argh! This is indeed a bug in the GUI.

Add -L0 among with your URLs, it should work ; like in:
www.foo.com -L0

I'll fix that in the next release.