Alarm to wake up my powerbook

Hey hello,
can some-one help me.
i've been looking for an alarm clock thingy that'll wake me up every weekday at 8.
it should take my closed powerbook out of sleep and start playing a smooth and slow playlist out of itunes (or something like that.)
does anyone know how to do this?
i've tried aurora, iAlarm tried creating an automator app, but i couldn't make it run automatically at 8 let alone let it wake up my mac.
does any one know? how to does
1. wake up my sleeping pb automatically each day at a certain hour
2. make it start playing music at that moment.
thanks for your help

This is what the developer of Alarm Clock has to say on the subject:
9. Will my laptop wake from sleep if the lid is shut?
Unfortunately No.
I'm actually a powerbook user, and I've been looking for a solution for this for some time.
To date, I don't know if one exists.
Here is some more detail:
When you authenticate you give the application (actually a small 'helper' application) permission to tell the OS to wake from sleep at a particular time. This is necessary because only the OS has the ability to wake the computer from sleep. So right before the computer goes to sleep, the alarm clock program informs the OS that it must wake up at a certain time. The OS (I'm assuming) writes this info to the firmware and then moves the applications out of memory and goes to sleep. If the computer isn't a laptop, or the lid isn't shut, everything works just fine. The problem is, if it is a laptop and the lid is shut, the OS completely ignores the request to wake from sleep. I have no idea how to get around this problem at this point since I can't change the operating system.
The workaround is to simply not shut the lid to the laptop. Just manually put it to sleep, or let it go to sleep itself.
If you have any idea on how to fix this problem, or you know of any software that can get around this problem, I'd love to hear about it.
Matthew Whiting

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