I've been through most every listing in the google directory and dmoz,
and I still haven't found what I've been looking for, which is:

A web log analyzer with the following features:

-- runs on windows/apache 1.3/php 4
-- can fetch from FTP automatically with wildcards (e.g. /home/user/logs/2004/*.gz)
-- reads log files in GZ
-- allows me to set and save custom filters easily and look at all my
reports through those lenses (e.g. I host a few rss files. I want to
look at all my different reports (traffic, visits, referrer,
bandwidth, etc) both overall, with just rss files, and just non-rss
files)
-- can filter on ANY combination of criteria (filesize, path, referer,
regexp, class A, browser, # of visits, etc)
-- can filter down to view actual lists of data-- ONE user's session,
a list of ALL hosts, etc
-- doesn't suck.
-- is cheap, free, or can be *ahem* "made free."

NetTracker Enterprise v7 does all of this, but it's way out of my
league price-wise
($2k for one profile).



Things I've tried that haven't worked:
NetTracker (too much $$)
clicktracks
analog
awstats
nihuo
123loganalyzer
weblog expert

This such a specific and long list of requirements you might be out of
luck trying to find a free tool that will fit all of them. I bet you
can find 2 or 3 tools that might get you most of those requirements
between them, but it's a pain to use 3 tools for one job.

Have you looked at Webalizer?

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

You might have to either break down and pay some big bucks for a
commercial product, or build your own ;)

answered my own question, finally: SAWMILL