After a few weeks I have a working Love2D/Lua implementation of Spriter loading and rendering. There were a few rough patches that ate a lot of time, so I figured I'd release my code and a video overview of my library to help other intrepid developers get over those humps.
Youtube links and code download can be found here:
http://www.hardcrawler.com/spriter-library/
Much thanks to this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15580
And this one:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15575