I was wondering if $!readini(blah) works like $!read(blah) so that it re-evaluates the read every time a timer fires. If not, how would I go about doing that?

Yes, the $!identifier construct work on any identifier and isn't reserved to timer, for example

Thank you I couldn't get the timer to read a new line from the ini file every time it fired, I realized I had to re-evaluate more than the just $readini on every fire.