> The log I included was for a local file with the 
> URL <file://foo.html> and not <file://C:oo.html> which 
> actully seems to work even worse-

Use the latest BETA release 
<http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html#beta>
) ; file:// is broken in 3.30 series, sorry!

3.31-BETA:
..
+ Fixed: Broken file://