Thanks Chris. I added the first two lines and tried it...worked great but left behind the line that started with <body background=....
So I added the third line you suggested and it took out all the content that was after that body tag as well....so the fetched page came up blank.
I'm not sure if that was only because I tried this strictly with the fetching script alone without using an include statement in the page I wanted to place the content. Would the lack of that a body tag cause all the content to disappear?