Can Spotlight Search Control iTunes?

I've been a Quicksilver user for many years and I've been giving Spotlight Search a try as my application launcher. So far so good, but I think I may have run into a snag. Quicksilver allowed me basic control over iTunes, such as Start and Stop, but it doesn't appear Spotlight Search offers that level of control. Unless I'm missing something.
Can anyone think of a way where Spotlight Search can control play/pause in iTunes?

I was having similar trouble using iTunes 7.4.1 (2). The 'Power Search' quick link off the main store page (Australia) was giving a pop up message that the store was busy, try again later, etc. This has been happening for the last couple of days. If I was further into the site, on a page displaying albums or similar, the Power Search worked just fine. Go figure.
You wanna know the scary part? Since I logged into the discussion pages to post this, I checked back and the link off the main page is now working as it should. They're watching me!!
Tinfoil hat time, me thinks. At least search is working again.

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