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But Hostgator control panel only allows for one command line.  I know there are other ways to accomplish this, but I am over my head. All suggestions welcomed!!!   Thank you in advance!

You need to put those multiple lines you want run into a special text file called a Shell Script. It is very similar to the Autoexec.bat back in the DOS and early Windows days.

The one line you put into the task scheduler will be the full path to that script file. On Linux systems, I name my scripts: "something.sh"

In that script file, begin with a Shebang ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29 ), then the commands you want to run. There is an example of such still at this URL:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Running+Command-line+Scripts
Section "EXAMPLE: Use "PHP CLI" within a Bash script to send queued CiviMail mailings (Drupal installation)"

Upload the script file to your server.

Set the eXecute bit on the file. If you have shell access, that would be the "chmod 0755 something.sh" command. If you have FTP access only, then somehow access the properties of the uploaded file and turn on the X bit for all ( User / Group / Other ).

That should be basically it.