In what way did the example not work?  If it's the socket error problem you can just comment out the first line in beauty_pass.rib which mentions the framebuffer.

Here is the batch file I am using.

[code]

@ECHO OFF

REM ***Compile shaders***

ECHO === Compiling Shader(s) ===
ECHO.
aqsl.exe "indirect.sl"
aqsl.exe "bake_points.sl"
aqsl.exe "ao.sl"
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO error


REM ***Render files***

ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO === Rendering File(s) ===
ECHO.
aqsis.exe -progress "shadow_pass.rib"
aqsis.exe -progress "bake_pass.rib"
aqsis.exe -progress "beauty_pass.rib"
aqsis.exe -progress "beauty_pass_ao.rib"
IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO end


REM ***Error reporting***

:error
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO An error occured, please read messages !!!
PAUSE
EXIT
:end

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Here is the results I get in the CMD box.

[code]

=== Compiling Shader(s) ===

Warning: Cannot open file "indirect.slx"
Warning: Cannot open file "bake_points.slx"
Warning: Cannot open file "ao.slx"


=== Rendering File(s) ===

04/10/2012 08:28:36 WARNING: Max eyesplits for object "unnamed" exceeded
TIFFOpen: l1.sm: Cannot open.
04/10/2012 08:28:46 Last message repeated 191 times
TIFFOpen: bake.tif: Cannot open.
04/10/2012 08:28:52 ERROR: RiProcRunProgram: CreateProcess failed
04/10/2012 08:28:52 ERROR: Cannot open display "cornellbox.tif" : Undefined
TIFFOpen: cornellbox.tif: Cannot open.
04/10/2012 08:30:49 ERROR: RiProcRunProgram: CreateProcess failed
04/10/2012 08:30:49 ERROR: Cannot open display "cornellbox.tif" : Undefined
Frame (0)  67.52% complete [ 86 secs / 41 left ]

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So cornellbox.tif is never created even though I have a l1.sm and bake.tif file created in my folder..?

That's a lot of errors!

It looks like any creation of files in the current directory is failing - probably best to check that the directory is not read-only.  If it is, just copy it into your home directory and run from there instead.