Thank you very much for this, I realize it takes time to type. I have it installed and since I couldn't ensure I would not f it up, I haven't loaded it with my pwd's and tried it out. After I digest all this, I will try it tomorrow. I am pretty much all experimental right now as I am trying to acquire a mb and memory to put my i5 on line with my good video card and use it as a miner exclusively (well, when I'm not gaming lol) all the while choosing the best linux distro to use...which I STILL have to research.  
      
   "Can keep the miners alive by checking they output and run state and re-starting them if they become unresponsive"
     "Can stop the miners nicely, by issuing Crl-C event, so that the miners have a chance to clean up. (GuiMiner simply terminated the miners, which resulted in NVidia display driver crash.)"
   this is what has occurred on mine, which is why I found you lol

 I would assume this will auto-restart the poclbm ?... when and if the graphics crashes, which if I stay away, it won't. I have an umbilical to this rig til then    Thanks again for your help!