Wake on LAN with Actiontech MI424wr Router

I posted this by mistake in the DSL forum, sorry.
. I've set up Wake on LAN for the purpose of powering up a media server that handles all my video and picture files. I have it working fine within my LAN but I've run into a problem when I use it from outside, meaning the internet or my cellular network. The Actiontech MI424WR router does not let me port forward the broadcast address so I worked around this issue by creating a static entry in the ARP table that passes the "Magic packet" to the broadcast MAC of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. See http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16041 for the details.
This technique works fine but unfortunately, the ARP entry will not survive a router reboot or power down. From what information I've been able to find, it may be possible to create a startup script in the router that will re-create the ARP entry upon bootup. I've contacted Actiontech but they said I needed to speak to Verizon support. I contacted Verizon support and they gave me a number for the Verizon Expert Care Team. I'm kinda smelling a runaround so I figured I'd post the question here before I made any more calls.
If you read that link I posted, theres an interesting alternative using a second router and changing that router's MAC address to all "F"s but not many routers will allow you to do that, at least not the two I have. Anyway, if someone knows how to create a startup script or has an alternate solution, I'd be most interested in seeing it. Thanks in advance.

By the way if you are still interested here is my solution...
Just change the IP, username and password.  Save this file to filename.vbs and Schedule a trigger (Daily Task, on PC startup) to run this script and you should be good to go
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.run"telnet 192.168.1.1"
WScript.Sleep 1500  WshShell.SendKeys"username"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500    
WshShell.SendKeys"password"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500  
WshShell.SendKeys"system shell"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500  
WshShell.SendKeys"arp -s 192.168.1.254 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500
WshShell.SendKeys"exit"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500  
WshShell.SendKeys"exit"  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")  
WScript.Sleep 1500  
WshShell.SendKeys("{Enter}")

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