I did manage to get things worked out. Sorta. I finally got the cron job to function properly as well. (I didn't read carefully what I was inputing)
However, the cron job now kicks back the same exact error as the phpinclude_end option did when I tried that way.
Code:
Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (not well-formed (invalid token) at line 3657, column 35) in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/articlebot/rss_fetch.inc on line 230
Warning: array_reverse(): The argument should be an array in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 137
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/articlebot/articlebot.php on line 141
I'm still thinking this could be the source issue since that parsing RSS file error looks familiar. But, if this returns an error, I'm not sure why my other newsfeed module (in Mambo CMS) is pulling the exact same feed without any errors.
(I'm at work and IMs are blocked, but I'd be more than willing to open things up and let you in to check around if you want to drop me an email. Currently the forums are in test mode anyway before we switch the main boards from SMF to vBulletin (a different headache, but oh well).)