I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I tried variations of what you gave me, and they lead to errors every time. I read in the Maya help that to create a shelf icon for the script you slect the input text (bottom of script editor) then save to shelf.

So, I open the script through the script editor and it displays the code in the input section, and I select that text and save to shelf. The icon doesn't work, and it's odd because it doesn't execute from the script editor either. The only way I have gotten it to work so far is through the command line.

Thanks again.