Scripting to keep an app running

I'm currently using the latest beta of Growl 1.3, merely because of the email notify capability (1.2 doesn't work with Leopard). However, I'm noticing the Growl tends to shut down pretty often, so I'd like to have a script run to restart growl every hour.
Is it best (overhead-wise) to run this in a terminal window or as an Apple script? I would assume apple script since I don't need to have an app open. I'd like to have the script start the app, sleep for an hour, then restart (all in a loop).
Also, if I have growl notifications on the screen when the script restarts Growl, does anyone know if those notifications will disappear?
Any other better suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!

you can make a launch daemon to do this. that's how it's done with dock and finder. they are automatically restarted by using launch daemons. first, remove itunes from login items. they will be started by the launch daemon.
make a plain text document with the following content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<true/>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.me.itunes</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</plist>
call it com.me.itunes.plist and save it in home directory/library/launchagents and log out/in. that's it. itunes will start automatically and if it quits for whatever reason it will restart.

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