This ought to be simple but...

First let me say that I am a relative noob when it comes to drupal so I might be making a stupid mistake here and am just unaware of a simple-ish method for doing the following. Please be patient.

I have an rss feed with a number of datafields at the end such as:

I would like to make these fields part of the node created off of the feed. I have been trying to get the feed_scraper module working because it looked promising but, although I can add it to the feed content type, it does not appear in the feed's settings under simplepie parser like I would expect it to. It looked like scraper or feedapi_exhaustive would do the trick but I am having the same issue with both modules. However, I am not really sure that I need to do that anyway.

Earlier in this process (rebuilding our office website) I wrote a php parser script to place these items into a mysql db but due to certain constraints placed on us by our parent organization regarding dbs the drupal feedapi->create node option works better as it gets us past the org db issue. I am sure that there is some method whereby I can use that php script or some derivative thereof but I am not familiar enough with drupal or feedapi, etc. to do so.

Ultimately I not only want to display these as part of the node but I would like to make them taxonomy terms.

FTR I am using Drupal 6.13 and the latest versions of feedapi, scraper, simplepie, etc.