Batch updating via xml

I absolutely love FreeGuide. I've been looking for
something like it (previously I went so far as
printing web pages off to PDF listings). As
background, I'm using Windows XP.

I'm thinking about how I'll use FreeGuide long-term. I
only connect to the internet from work, and of course
I only watch TV at home. 

Before finding FreeGuide I had run across XMLTV, and
made it work, but I hadn't found a listings viewer.
Now I'm wondering if I could somehow run xmltv.exe
routinely, without firing up FreeGuide. Here's some
questions:

1) Looking at FreeGuide's process for downloading
listings, it looks like it runs xmltv.exe once for
each day. Also, each day's listings is in one
individual file. Could I have FreeGuide look at a .xml
file that has contains multiple days?

2) Could I come up with a DOS batch file to precisely
duplicate FreeGuide's conventions? I'm not a batch
writing guru, so if this is the better way to go then
I'd need a hint or two to get started.

3) Maybe I shouldn't be using FreeGuide? I like the
program, I like the output, I like the fact that it's
free and open-source. If this is the case, then I'd
appreciate a pointer to a (hopefully free, hopefully
not bloated, hopefully capable) .xmltv viewer.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Again, I'm looking
for a way to break apart the internet query from the
act of using FreeGuide. The internet query could then
be automated (most likely through XP's scheduled
tasks).

Thanks for any hints or further direction.
-Clint

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