Cannot get amarok to play with cron

I used to have this in Ubuntu, I use gnome-schedule GUI for cron and have some other cronjobs working fine. But amarok will not play (I like to use it as a wake-up alarm). I have:
15 7 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && amarok -t
But it doesn't work. I've tried "amarok -t" in quotes, no go. When I hit amarok -t in a terminal it play/pauses fine.

This is from my testing the cronjob last night, from /var/log/crond:
04-Jan-2008 02:01 FILE /var/spool/cron/root USER root pid 32494 cmd /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
04-Jan-2008 02:02 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 32635 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && amarok -t >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:03 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 309 cmd amarok -t >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:04 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 461 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 & amarok -t >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:05 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 647 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && "amarok -t" >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:08 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 1087 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && amarok -p >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:12 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 1612 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && 'amarok -t' >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:13 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 1749 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && wxvlc >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:14 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 1879 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && amarokapp -t >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
04-Jan-2008 02:16 FILE /var/spool/cron/bobby USER bobby pid 2155 cmd export DISPLAY=:0 && /opt/kde/bin/amarok -t >/dev/null 2>&1 #JOB_ID_2
I don't understand how it can be a permission/user issue, as I tested cron with other apps like vlc, xine, openoffice, etc. and they all run as scheduled ??

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