Using Automator for to do reminders?

Hello,
I need to create an automator flow for ical that will, when I enter a date, create a series of to do tasks and alarms for those tasks over set periods.
Example. I need to set deadline dates from Monday 5/16/11; need the workflow to take that date, go to to ical and enter a) to do items with b) alarms 7, 15, and 30 days from 5/16/11. The start date will always change, but the schedule for tasks completion (7,15, 30 days) will not. If I can name the deadlines that would be good too.
Any help appreciated, thanks!

You'd want the *do shell script* command in AppleScript for this
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
however you're not going to be able to use it as you would tools such as Expect which allow you to wait and provide additional input on stdin. If all you're doing is updating an IP address why not simplify the entire mess with BIND's dynamic updates?

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