I don't exactly remember why I did that now, but it had something to do with the average size of the html file I was slurping...that number's something like twice it I think, so that I'm guaranteed to have the data I need in the middle somewhere...yeah, I don't remember why exactly now, but I'm glad to say that the scraper portion of my project is completed and that the data is happily in a database serving out useful information to people that didn't have it as easily before :)