Thank you guys for the responses, I really appreciate it. No I have not edited configure.php files to point to the local server, don't even know what to edit, but I am giving lat9's suggestion a try right now.

Currently I am navigating locally through a very long process, by first going to the live page i want to edit online, and then copying the url extension to my local server url i.e if address on live site is www.justconsolesnigeria.com/index......, I copy the "index..." and paste is after http://localhost/zencart/index... Obviously this is a very long and painful process to go through for each page, but at least i can get some work done locally.

Thanks once again for the responses, as I said, I am running through lat9s suggestion and will follow it step by step, letting you guys know the result.