I can see two things you could be doing better: you are thinking like you are writing a program, rather than doing tricks with shell scripts, and you have the & in the wrong place (where you have it backgrounds the 'echo' command, not kin.css.wait) This is closer to what you want:

---file kin.css (on the remote computer, I assume)

echo running kin.css;
#Do your thing

touch kin.done;

echo Finished running kin.css;

---eof
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and now run it by typing on the local computer

rsh dgintel1 /bb/bin/kin.css &
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Your problem was that your were backgrounding the wrong process on the wrong computer. If you want the local prompt back you have to background the local program - in this case rsh.

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