Hi Brian,
That version of the macro looks ancient. In general, using bash to get the title is tricky; Python would be much more reliable. That said, I use this along with some regular expressions (trim whitespace, trim return, …) to get the title:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/wget -qO- "$KMVAR_URL__URL" | /usr/local/bin/gawk -v IGNORECASE=1 -v RS='</title' 'RT{gsub(/.*<title[^>]*>/,"");print;exit}'
It works with your example and should cover most cases.
Cheers,
Patrick