Question : Problem: Looking for PuTTY/Pageant replacement to allow connections to multiple servers via script

This is a two part question.

1.) I am currently using the Putty and pageant tool to connect to multiple servers by using the following .bat script in Windows 2000:
-------------------------server-connect.bat--------------------------------------------------
start "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pageant.exe" "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\Keys\private.ppk"
sleep 5
start C:\"Program Files"\PuTTY\putty.exe -load "black" -ssh jon@server1
start C:\"Program Files"\PuTTY\putty.exe -load "black" -ssh jon@server2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The problem is that coorporate has came along and told us we can't use PuTTY anymore. I'm currently trying to find a replacement SSH program which would allow me to use the same functionality to do what I'm doing above. Does anyone know if AxeSSH or SecureSSH have anything similar to pageant which would allow me to basically do the same thing? Thank you in advance.

Answer : Problem: Looking for PuTTY/Pageant replacement to allow connections to multiple servers via script

If your company has specifically identified PuTTY as non-acceptable, they should be able to identify an acceptable replacement.  If not, you might look into some of the following SourceForge projects:

sshtools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshtools/
sssh (super ssh): http://sourceforge.net/projects/sssh/