thanks you guys,
except it appears that autolinks 2.1 has a built in crontab in the script.
here's the lingo in it's control panel:
Update Interval
Set the maximum of minutes to wait between updating the tags. The lower this number is, the more real time the site will be, but if it's too high, it will use a lot of processing power.
and it has the default set at a 15 minute update.
i can manually update it by click a link---but the darn thing won't update automatically
