How do I make a Pages menu without <ul> … <li> ?

Or can I run a custom loop to pull Page details?

I just discovered the get_pages() function.

However, my setup below does not display them in menu_order and it does not exclude the specified Pages. Any tips?

<?php
	$args = array(
		'sort_column'	=> 'menu_order',
		'sort_order'	=> 'asc',
		'exclude'		=> '120,121',
		'include'		=> '',
		'child_of'		=> 0,
		'parent'		=> 0,
		'exclude_tree'	=> '',
		'hierarchical'	=> 1,
		'meta_key'		=> '',
		'meta_value'	=> '',
		'authors'		=> '',
		'number'		=> '',
		'offset'		=> 0 );
	$pages = get_pages();
	foreach ($pages as $page) {
		echo $page->post_title;
	}
 ?>

here is a way to ‘strip’ the ul/li/class from the wp_page_menu() –
probably not the most elegant/effective solution, but works:

<?php
	$args = array(
		'sort_column'	=> 'menu_order',
		'sort_order'	=> 'asc',
		'exclude'		=> '120,121',
		'include'		=> '',
		'child_of'		=> 0,
		'parent'		=> 0,
		'exclude_tree'	=> '',
		'hierarchical'	=> 1,
		'meta_key'		=> '',
		'meta_value'	=> '',
		'authors'		=> '',
		'number'		=> '',
		'offset'		=> 0,
		'echo' => 0 );

$pag=explode('a href',wp_page_menu( $args ));
$i=0; // counter to skip first fragment
$pagelist=''; // output string
$sep='<br />'; // separator between list elements
foreach($pag as $pa) :
if($i==0) {$i++; continue;};
$pac=explode('</li',$pa); // break off useless overhang
$pagelist=$pagelist.'<a href'.$pac[0].$sep; //build output string with separators
endforeach;
echo substr($pagelist,0,-strlen($sep)); // output after removing exceess separator
?>

here is a less radical version – replacing the <li> with <span> and removing any <ul> </ul>.
this is keeping the css classes and any titles or enclosing divs that come from from wp_page_menu().

<?php	// list free page list with span instead
	$args = array(
		'sort_column'	=> 'menu_order',
		'sort_order'	=> 'asc',
		'exclude'		=> '120,121',
		'include'		=> '',
		'child_of'		=> 0,
		'parent'		=> 0,
		'exclude_tree'	=> '',
		'hierarchical'	=> 1,
		'meta_key'		=> '',
		'meta_value'	=> '',
		'authors'		=> '',
		'number'		=> '',
		'offset'		=> 0,
		'echo' => 0 );

	$pgl=wp_page_menu( $args );
	$sep=' - '; // optional separator
	$rep='</span>'.$sep; // adding separator to replacent for </li>
	$pgl=str_replace('</li>',$rep,$pgl); // replace all closing li with closing span
	$pgl=str_replace('<li ','<span ',$pgl); // replace all  li with span
	$pgl=str_replace('</ul>','',$pgl); // replace closing ul, in this case with ''
	$pgl=str_replace('<ul>','',$pgl); // replace ul, in this case with ''
	if($sep!='') :
	$pgl=strrev($pgl); $sep=strrev($sep); // this is needed for removing the last separator
	$pgl=explode($sep,$pgl,2); // this is needed for removing the last separator
	$pgl=implode('',$pgl); $pgl=strrev($pgl); // this is needed or removing the last separator
	endif;
	echo $pgl; // echo pagelist
?>

Try this:

<?php
   $args = array(
      'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
          'exclude' => '120, 121'
   );

   $pages = get_pages($args);
   foreach ($pages as $page){
      echo $page->post_title;
   }
?>

A few notes about your code:
1. You don’t need to specify all values to get_pages().
2. Check the defaults, not specifying these will save you time.
3. !Most importantly! Make sure you actually pass $args into the function, not sure what I mean, check your original code. You specify all the arguments in $args, but dont them use them when calling get_pages() ??

Thanks for those tips. I learnt a bit.
Here’s my working result.
I’m keeping all the $args because I intend to use a few more of them later.

<?php
	$args = array(
		'child_of' => 0,
		'sort_order' => 'ASC',
		'sort_column' => 'menu_order',
		'hierarchical' => 1,
		'exclude' => '120,121',
		'include' => '',
		'meta_key' => '',
		'meta_value' => '',
		'authors' => '',
		'parent' => 0,
		'exclude_tree' => '',
		'number' => '',
		'offset' => 0 );
	$pages = get_pages($args);
	foreach ($pages as $page) {
		$menu = '<span class="hmenu"><a href="'.get_page_link($page->ID).'" title="">'.$page->post_title.'</a></span>';
		echo $menu."\n";
	}
 ?>

I needed something similar for outputting the page list in a custom xml document, so I could read it with another program.

I used wp_list_pages() with a slight modification to two files: post-template.php and classes.php

first post-template.php (this is where the wp_list_pages function sits):
In the function, add a custom argument
'wrapper_tag' => 'li'
to the $defaults array. That’s it for that file. Then in classes.php, find the Walker_Page Class and find the line that reads:
$output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class
and change it to:
$output .= $indent . "<$wrapper_tag class=\"" . $css_class
then, a little further on, change:

function end_el(&$output, $page, $depth) {
        $output .= "</li>\n";
    }

to:

function end_el(&$output, $page, $depth,$args) {
        extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
        $output .= "</$wrapper_tag>\n";
    }

You see I included all the $args and extracted them just to get the $wrapper_tag, so this may not be the most efficient solution, but it works. I probably should have created my own funtion/class, but I’m lazy.

Finally, to use it, just use:
wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&wrapper_tag=whatever');