Yeah, I have rsync and have been using it for a year now. I love it to death but, I can't do root level stuff with it. If I could I wouldn't have even bothered anyone with my questions.
What I'm going to do is run a little script I wrote as root from the target machine. The script will just pipe all the commands I want into ftp and show results verbosely.
I can't go to DNS. It's a long story but, we run a 24X7 operation and if a workstation goes down, we want all the others to be identical in design to be useable as direct swapouts for that failed machine. We also don't use DHCP every machine and LAN/WAN device is static and is listed in my host files. We are also on an isolated WAN that is non-terrestrial so we are nice and safe from outside issues.
So anyhow, it looks like I will get some performance out of this script. Just wish it could do su root too.