Ok, seeing as thought there is no support here, this is what i did for people that also need this and can't get support. I downloaded the sitemap.php file that was used in version 0.9.x from here http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/0.9.x/scripts/sitemap.php and then put it into my current site that runs version 1.0.1 and then used putty to test and see if it worked and it did and now have a cron job running with the following commands:
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It's not a simple process I am afraid but if you search you will find the process, I am sure it works by setting crons.
/usr/local/php5/bin/php /home/folder/site.com/scripts/sitemap.php -f sitemapindex.xml -d sitemaps -u http://site.com/sitemaps/
Hope that helps someone out there. This works for me, not sure if it breaks anything but i had to try.