I have concluded that Bill Gates is Satan!

Ok, I'm late, but... I have had 26 scheduled tasks that run every hour on the hour 
every day for eternity to go and run a series of Java files I wrote that connect 
remotely to a remote server to do remote cleanup of stray XML files, etc.; things I 
cannot do on the remote machine box itself because it's remote and I don't have 
permissions were I physically on the box anyway.

However, on 7/18 all 26 of my scheduled tasks stopped running; one of which 
continuously ran for 4 days straight w/o stopping (nor could I manually stop it).  I 
deleted the runaway process and recreated it; now not a single one of my 26 scheduled 
Win2000 tasks I created using MS-DOS AT commands work (which were working since 7/2).

I am now looking into programmatic alternatives.  I really could use some ideas that 
are practical given my situation.  I'm thinking PHP since I am very comfortable with 
it, were it possible within my bizarre Win2000 environment, but I need something that 
will clean those XML files remotely on a regular basis, it's important for website 
maintenance.  Any help appreciated.

Thanx
Phil

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