Hi,
Don't know if it's relevant to your situation but, as an alternative, it should be possible to automate the entire process from VFP. Something like:
oIE = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
oIE.Navigate("
http://www.somepage.hmtl")
oDoc = oIE.Document
At that point you should be able to drill down to the relevant table and access the row/column values directly.
HTH,
Viv