Well, SSH access would be required should I be of any use; I would need to be able to access the command line tools to load the data into the database; you should ask your webhost if you have SSH access (likely, you assume you do not have it because you have never used it); any linux based webhost would have it, whereas it'd be unlikely if you where on a Windows based webhost.
Go ahead and shoot me off an email to james[at]virtualnightclub[dot]net and we'll discuss options; and possibly I can help you locate a webhost which doesn't have as stick up their... yeh..