I have a need to get the status of Dropbox, ie Idle, Synching, etc.

As far as I can tell, Dropbox does not offer any method to get this information directly. I just happened to find the following information at the AutoIT forums, and wonder if anyone has any ideas how we could use this with kix?

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/142644-getread-dropbox-status/