Sorry, I was unclear. The program has never finished execution and only stops when I break execution. The main page is local, and from that I extract a list of IDs. The while loop takes each ID and then calls each subroutine with the ID. Each subroutine loads a separate page from Yahoo with the ID in the URL.

I updated the code to use the real Yahoo index page instead of my local copy. The local file never changed while I was running the script and contains over 500 rows.

I hope this clarifies things.