Help with POE, Tk, and Multiple Processes

Folks-

You can check out the following link to see how I've been educated on this issue so far, but I'm having trouble engineering a solution. I hope to be able to put this solution into the cookbook, once it's been reviewed by all interested parties.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=813252

Shows my initial question, the two answers I got, and my first failed attempt at a solution.

Here is a quick summary:

I'm using POE to fire off a series of processes that tail remote logfiles via ssh.

The child processes try the remote commands, expecting the ssh public/private keys to already be setup between the two machines. If not, the child knows how to go ahead and set them up for the user - however it needs to get a password from the user for the setup to work.

The parent process is running the Tk mainwindow for the GUI interface with the user.

The two suggested solutions are:
1.)     Run independent Tk event loops from the children
2.)     Have the children request the parent to get this information.

I'm currently trying to follow solution #2, but can't seem to get it to work. Any thoughts, pointers, suggestions, etc, are appreciated.

Thanks

-Craig

PS - My code is available from the above link