Hi folks:
Rather than pollute the mail list with more scratchings, I have made a web page for various iTerm/TextMate shell scripts. One of these runs shell scripts in a new iTerm window, and gives you the chance to feed the command some arguments, if needed.
http://xanana.ucsc.edu/xtal/textmate_iterm.html
HTH someone.
Bill
William G. Scott
contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott