Well, it is a security risk, but as far as I know there is nothing to prevent you from installing the Notes client on the server - either standard or basic. I've done it often and never had a problem with it. The client will install in a 'notes' directory, the server in the 'domino' directory. 

Dont use a notes client on the Server, what ever it is you want to do, there is another way to do it.

Why not run those agents on the server? Put the agent in the template and deploy it with the rest of the design. Then you use the console command tell amgr run to execute the agent on the server.

You could also run the agent on a regular client computer. If you feel that the agent must run very quickly in order not to mess up the database, you should probably not run it in first place.

Thanks to everyone who responded.  I understand the risks, both the crashing and the security and because of the specialized work I do, the security is better my way of doing this work and crashing, it's happened once or twice but over what I gain from working locally far out weighs the risks.

I'm working with my IBM rep to help me, hopefully, solve this.  I've installed a client and that's working fine....too fine.  It's maintaining the client security and checking and wont let me work locally.  I need to work locally and by-pass some of the client authorizization checking otherwise it could cause some other issues that I don't want to happen.

Thanks again for the responses.  Fingers crossed either through my IBM rep or web searching I can find my answer.