Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. I really appreciate it.
I am trying to go this route, and I like the solution if I can get the last part sorted out.
"Photoshop script that simply writes a windows bat command file containing a move file system command to move all files in the source image folder to the archive folder. once the temp bat file is written the script executes the file." - This is the part I'm not sure how to do. Do you have an example of what this script looks like? Is it a javascript file that I would edit in extendscript and then place it in the "scripts" folder?
By the way, I'm more than content to not "watch" the folder...and instead just run the script on a windows task scheduler once daily.