I am limited to batch scripting for one particular task we do and in it I need to schedule a task. I'm using schtasks to create the task and it works great except for the start time.

I need to write a batch file in XP. %99 of my career has been on some flavor of UNIX. You're going to need to give a bit more context. %~nxi would give you the name ("n") and extension ("x") of ...