Import Export API was overly ambitious, and just can't be kept in sync with the many sources. Perhaps a team that maintains it would be able to revive it and keep it in sync.

I have not used it myself, but I heard people sing praise for the Import HTML module.

http://drupal.org/project/import_html

If you can export a site to HTML (wget), and don't need "fields" (cck) then it is a viable solution to many problems.

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