For my specific purposes I used the following class http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/
And the following php code to get exactly what I want from the html table I am scraping.
<?php
include('../includes/simple_html_dom.php');
$html = file_get_html('http://listhoopla.com/r.cgi/276');
$ret = $html->find('tr');
?><table><?
$x=1;
while($x<8){
echo $ret[$x];
$x++;
}
?>
</table>