<p>Pretty self explanatory. I just need to export lists easily to xml format. Are there any tools that accomplish this?</p>

You can write a c# application pretty easily to connect to the sp list and export it out yourself.
A quick search on codeplex search comes up with one such program already made for this purpose! Hope this can help you:
http://www.codeplex.com/SPListReader
http://www.codeplex.com/SPListReader/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15420