> Once I have set up some 'grabs' using the nice GUI 
> interface, I now want to download them from a batch 
> file.
> Could someone point me in the right direction?
The batch program to use is httrack.exe 
(or /usr/bin/httrack under linux)

See the faq for more information on all options, or 
type in:
httrack --quiet --help|more

Example:

httrack www.mywebsite.com -c4 -P myproxy:8080 -O 
c:\myfolder -*.zip +www.foo.com/*.html