just have the status of the person who i signed in refreshed every once and a while, when i leave my comp on for a day or two and then look at it, it annoys me to see my gamerscore still hasn't been updated :)

im sure this would be extreamly easy to impliment

Your right, this probably won't take too long to implement.  The question I have... how often do you think I should update this information?  1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 24 hours?

Also, I may combine the efforts of this with another task I have on the list...  if this happens, the question might be a non-issue; but I'd still like to get input either way.

i would say that you should just update it as often as the friends list does? from my understanding, doesn't that information get pulled along with the friends list? or do you do it some other way where the current user's header doesn't show up with it?.

if not with the list, then i would say the more often the better, people arn't going to be looking at it unless there was a change, and the only way to catch when there was a change would be to update it as often as possible, im sure it wouldn't effect the bandwidth usage any huge amount?