Switching Energy Saver on login

Hi,
I would like to automate the following: switching Energy Saver to Highest Perfotmance when a specific user (non admin) logs on and switching back to Automatic once the user logs off.
I found this thread ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1289296&#1289296 ) which also deals with the energy saver thing, but beeing a complete novice to apple script, I would greatly appreciate if anyone could walk me through the details..
Thanks a lot,
Alex
PowerBook G4 1.5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I use a program called "Jiggler" to prevent screen sleep (it runs the mouse around in a tiny circle just often enough to prevent the ScreenSaverEngine from starting.
I start that with an AppleScript that (in part) looks like this:
-- start of script ---
activate application "Jiggler"
-- this sets screen sleep time to never and spindown to never - the smallest setting is 1 minute = 1
do shell script "sudo pmset dim 0 spindown 0" user name "PutYoursHere" password "YourSecretHere" with administrator privileges
-- this wakes up the hard disk if it was asleep - it just writes some disk info to temp, but has to start the disk to get it.
do shell script "diskutil info \"POSIX path to disk\" > /dev/null"
--- end of script ----
I do other things as well. Note that this is not secure because your password is hanging out - it works for me because you can't run it unless you log in and only I use the machine. If you save it as an application and put it in your startups it will run do its stuff and quit.
To restore the settings I use another script:
--- start of second script ---
ignoring application responses
quit application "Jiggler"
end ignoring
activate application "ScreenSaverEngine"
delay 3
do shell script "sudo pmset dim 1 spindown 1" user name "YoursHere" password "YourPW" with administrator privileges
--- end of script ---
Again, I do several other things. This turns on the screensaver immediately and then 1 minute later powers down the the drive and in my case monitors. Not sure what happens on a laptop.

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