Thanks everybody for your feedback...this forum is great! My little script handles my needs just fine for now.

That helped. What I needed to do was actually much simpler than that.

The solution to my problems was a batch file that calls osql a buch of times, a la

osql...

No no no.

You misunderstand. The stored procs are each in a separate .tql file. I don't have them in a database. Some are written by me, some by other developers....