Woo, thanks :) I'll try and get it to work tomorrow, though, not tonight, as it's Late for me.

Is there a module out there that you can configure to run a bang command on a timer of some sort (like, every 20 minutes, it does a !poll_news_sites or every day at 1, it runs !clean_hard_drive or something?)?

That could be used in conjunction with all of this to get something workable, I think.

Though I find it slightly amusing that I have to end up running something like 3 modules to get a little square to show up on my desktop. I'm somewhat surprised (and somewhat not) that it hasn't already been written into an existing clock module.

But, again, thank you very much for your help. I'll post an update soon with how it went