Thank you for a quick reply!
Sounds good.
I hope the script does not eat up all the resources!

It normally takes about 1min to run through and that is no more than once a day. On the current hosting, what seemed to be the problem was that in php.ini cpu_execution_time=30 (<
I've never had a problem runnign the same script on other shared hosting packages - or have any need to touch php.ini.
Thanks again!