Having the ability to setup a recurrence outside of the scheduler would be nice.  The ability to use recurrences for other things that don't make sense showing up on a scheduler.  An example would be setting up a an email subscription.  I want it to recur, but I don't need to see it on a calendar.  

The RFC for iCal supports up to a recurrence at the second level.  While I think that is too much, you should be supporting recurrence at the minute level.

The Windows Task Scheduler supports this, as well as Linux/Unix Cron.

If you are using the Scheduler Widget as a UI for a job/task scheduling system, then having the ability to schedule at the minute level is important.

This is related to the feedback request to "Add hourly recurrence editor to Scheduler".