Still no luck getting my cron tab thingy to work as the action stream output is still stuck on what it was when i first put it up. This is what I've got (on Dreamhost btw):
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/perl /home/mennoboy.com/mt4/mt/tools/run-periodic-tasks
Any help?

On dreamhost did you try the (GOODIES > CRON JOBS) panel page to setup? When I was on dreamhost it worked great for me.
This is documented here, but to summarize, you need to first either:
So let me recommend you setup your cron like this:
I'm seeing the same issue. The difference being that when running with -verbose, I get this:
TheSchwartz::work_once found no jobs
It is possible that no work is scheduled to be done. Action Streams only performs its syncing operation once every 30 minutes. Therefore, you may need to wait before trying again.
I have overridden this behavior by editing the tasks plugin config option in Action Streams' config.yaml file. I changed the 1800 to 1.