[Puppet Users] can't get custom restart to work on a windows service

Hi!

I am encountering something that I am not sure is a bug or not, so I
thought I'd post a question.

Running Puppet 2.7.18 on Windows 2003.

Basically, what I want to do is manage nsclient++ on windows. I am able to
manage the files just fine, but restarting doesn't work because of bug 13489<http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13489>.
So I thought I might circumvent it thusly:


service { "NSClientpp":
ensure => running,
restart => 'c:/program files/nsclient++/scripts/restart.bat',
subscribe => File["c:/program files/nsclient++/nsc.ini"],
}

and restart.bat is very simple:

sc stop nsclientpp
perl -e "sleep 10"
sc start nsclientpp
echo ran >> c:\restart.txt

it has world read and execute permissions, so it should run, but
restart.txt doesn't get created and the service still won't start on its
own.

My question is whether I am doing something wrong or is this is a bug?

Thanks

Dan