I wrote a command line thin client to go with my monitoring app. You just enter the directory(s) as 1 or two arguments to the application. For instance:
./fhmclient /Users/myname/folding1 /User/myname/folding2
It will then read the files every two minutes and start up a Rendezvous sharing session so that you can monitor all of your local machines through the graphical client.
It is located
here
Note: you currently have to enter the paths as an argument each time you run the app as it doesn't remember the preferences yet. Not a big deal if you are using cron to start it up though.

I'll fix this soon.
kman