New Post: Pretty new to jQuery trying to do something (hopefully) simple with SPServices

There are certain fields that are going to be included in the XML return always. You can include the option...

CAMLQueryOptions: "<QueryOptions><IncludeMandatoryColumns>FALSE</IncludeMandatoryColumns></QueryOptions>",

That will still return more fields than you're probably looking for but it will limit the extra stuff--nothing we can do about that.
The "Status" item is just the web service call status result (i.e., will return "success" if the call was successful).