ARD tasks never end

Hi, all-
I have 2 servers (10.6.8) with ARD. One uses 3.4 and one 3.5.1. All clients are 3.5.1. There are some tasks, thawing and freezing client machines for example, that sometimes don't stop. I can watch as all the clients restart after sending the command and show that they have changed states, but the task continues. This means, of course, that other tasks pile up until i realize what's happening and manually stop the task. It's not consistent- sometimes the task will end. It happens on both of my servers.
Very irritating! Does anyone have any ideas?
thanks,
ann

BTW Apple Remote Desktop dose have the ability to email you when tasks succeed or fail.
ARD dose offer the ability to assign tasks to a "task server." basically you set up another computer with ARD, add all the computers to ARD on the 2nd computer. And then you can assign tasks to the 2nd Computer. The task server still performs one task at a time, but that dose mean your 1st computer is free to run other tasks. So you could have two tasks running at ones.
Tasks server can get stuck on tasks, just like regular ARD. And you can of corse rig the task server to email when tasks complete / fail.
And there no reason you can't setup a 3rd computer, but I and manually run tasks on that computer as well.
I haven't tired using ARD in multiple accounts on the same computer, at the same time, but I'll have to try that tomorrow, and see if that works.

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