Prevent ARD from quitting - auto relaunch ARD

I have brought this up in the past and it didn't get answered.
Now I may have stumbled onto a solution.
We have chosen to allow our users to run their Macs as secondary administrators. Their account is not the first account that is created when a new Mac is registered, that is the IT account and we set the root password before deploying. We also configure ARD for our remote support purposes.
Some 'clever' users have decided they can turn off ARD.
We disagree. ARD is our decision and we want the tools to control ARD under the hood to make this happen without being subjected to SSH and the exact same problem.
What I have come up with and plan to test, is a method of adjusting the startup of ARD to relaunch if for any reason it has quit, much like a Bind-named scenario. And there's a utility called LINGON that gives you access to mess with these settings.
Comments or Suggestions?
Any Mac OS X (10.4)
Any Mac OS X (10.4)

Using Lingon I created an entry in the System Daemons for 'com.apple.kickstart' to 'RunAtLoad.'
Using the command line remarks for lauching kisckstart I created ProgramArgument entries for the following-each on a separate line:
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/ki ckstart
-activate
-configure
-access
-on
-users admin
-privs
-all
-restart
-agent
-menu
Also, placed an entry in the service description field as 'kickstart'
Now what I need is a reliable Miscellaneous calendar event or pid monitor to regenerate the Load.
If we used a pid monitor I imagine we would need to edit something so that the ARD agent is launched and instructed to put a pid file in /var/run to be monitored?
Looking for suggestions and comments - instruction.
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