Extracting Content with Regular Expressions

hi all,
i am trying to extract some content from a text file using regular expressions but i am unable to get the exact match that i am expecting
here is the sample text
The passage begins like that (something in text form (some
more embedded text) remaining outer text).
i am expecting to get the following match,
(something in text form (some
more embedded text) remaining outer text)
but my regular expression just returns me a broken section of the text as this one
(something in text form (some
more embedded text)
how can i get this fixed, i mean how can i match evenly across the open parenthesis.
here is my broken reg exp (?:$(?:\\.|[^$\\])*\))
thanks for any help!

Cross-posted. See duplicate http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=653042&tstart=0

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Message was edited by: Etbin
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