Well even if I run it manually it won't get the config data from the sql configdb.

So possibly there is something wrong other than what I am thinking?

I'm not sure what you mean by the Scheduled Job owner..

from my understanding, the owner of the schedules job is whatever logon id is used as the longon as for the sql server agent. But in this case, it's part of the proxy user.

Using the xml file way of storing the config data worked well, but the dba for the server that the database is on wants it down with the configdb..