Using launchctl via SSH

Hello everyone. Here's my situation:
I'm running Leopard Server 10.5.8.
Recently I made a plist file to put in my users's ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. It runs an applescript at regular intervals throughout the day. Occasionally I need to stop and relaunch it, which I do using launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/nameofplist. (or unload, respectively.) This works fine when I'm logged in to the computer using my user's account, which is an admin account. BUT I want to do it via SSH instead. My user's account does not have access to SSH (for a good reason), so I use a special network user account for that. I SSH login remotely via Terminal, and then I type login username using my username and password. Then when I try the launchctl load command, I get this error:
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected
Does anyone know how I can get launchctl to work over SSH?

LittleSaint wrote:
Why would applescript be the problem? As long as it was compiled as a script and not an application, it should work just fine from a shell.
Not all shells are equal. An ssh-only connection does not have access to the Aqua user interface.
In Snow Leopard, the behavior seems to be different than before. It tries harder to find an Aqua session to run against. Before, I could just ssh from the Terminal and verify that my command line applications would or would not work. Now, even if I ssh from another account, if my original account is still logged in, I can still launch applications. I have to logout of my original account, login to a new account, ssh back to the original account and then try
[jdaniel@pele:506] ~/Desktop $ osascript testit.scpt
testit.scpt: execution error: An error of type -10810 has occurred. (-10810)
in order to get the desired failure.
Also, you have to actually access something in Aqua before it fails. The above error just comes from activating Address Book. If I take that out and just do 'set thename to "Hello"' it works fine. Of course, I don't know what you can do in AppleScript without telling some Aqua application to do it.

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