15. An interactive self-help application system, comprising: an application script for implementing the interactive self-help service; a deployment platform on a network having a plurality of application servers distributed over the network and application resources able to execute the application script; a specification for preferred application resources needed for executing the application script; a centralized list of application resources, said centralized list of resources being checked and updated from a first node on the network to maintain a list of application resources prioritized by performance and including resource preference and availability; a selected application server located at a second node on the network for executing the application script, said selected application server being selected from the plurality of application servers on the network; a local list of application resources maintained at the selected application server, said local list of application resources listing application resources previously servicing the selected application server including quality of service of the application resources from the second node; a central view list of application resources obtained by querying the centralized list by resource type to conform to a predefined specification and prioritized by performance; a local view list of resources generated by querying the local list to select a list of previously contacted resources prioritized by availability and indicating a degree of success of previous browser attempts for each previously contacted resource; and wherein the application script is executed by the selected application server with application resources located dynamically from a final prioritized list created based upon the central view list filtered by using the local view list.
26. The system as in claim 15 , wherein the application resource is located from the final prioritized list by selecting from the final prioritized list in priority order and using load balancing if several resources of a given type to be selected are of equal order.