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Old 06-06-2008
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You can run multiple cronjobs at a time without clashing in Unix. Each will run as a background process.
Add this tag at the end of your cron job:

>/dev/null 2>&1

Example of your cron job looks like:

30 23 * * * /home/username/www/cgi-bin/members.cgi> /dev/null 2>&1