Best Quality uprez for DV SD to 720p HD ?

I have a valued client who wants me to edit a pile of NTSC dv footage into 720 p HD, and he wants maximum quality. I would like to do that in CS4, but my software of choice, Topaz Enhance, doesn't work in PPro or AE CS4, and I don't want to go back to CS3 where it will run to do that work and then have to import it all into CS4 to do the editing. I usually pass on SD to HD work, but this client is important to me. So, I agrred to do it, not realizing that Topaz had not upgraded Enhance to work with CS4 yet.
Is there any software that will do the job in CS4 at the same level of quality as Topaz? Any suggestion welcome. TIA

Thanks Jim,
I'll look into that. My problem is more than just a simple upconversion. I suspect that to get the best quality possible, I will have to deinterlace first, and clean up the edges,etc. The great thing about both Topaz Enhance and Instant HD Advanced is that they combine all the necessary fuctions into a single pass application that use very sophisticated nearby frame algos. The results with Tpaz are excellent--and there are good reports on Instant HD Advanced, although I have never used it. I wonder if Dan's script will do more than simply upres. The deinterlacing in AE is only so so.

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