Una manera rápida de hacerlo sería esta:
Código PHP:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>test</title>
<script>
function nueva(){
nt='<table>';
t=document.getElementById('pepe');
trs=t.getElementsByTagName('tr');
for(i=0;i<trs.length;i++){
ihtml='';
tds=trs[i].getElementsByTagName('td');
for(j=1;j<tds.length;j++){
ihtml+='<td>'+tds[j].innerHTML+'</td>';
}
nt+='<tr>'+ihtml+'</tr>';
}
nt+='</table>';
document.getElementById('nueva').innerHTML=nt;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table id="pepe" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
</tr>
</table><br />
<a href="javascript:nueva()">Nueva tabla
</a>
<div id="nueva"></div>
</body>
</html>