File extension dictates importer to use?

Anyone have luck in getting unix shell scripts indexed by Spotlight? Perhaps I'm weird, but I don't like my shell scripts to have extensions. When I execute a script, I don't care if it's python, bash, perl, etc. I just wanna execute it After doing some research, it seems that the file extension dictates the type of file that OS X thinks it is, which in turn dictates which importer will be used to index it. My system shows it as a "Unix Executable File" but that's not specific enough for Spotlight to know how to index it.
I even spent hours browsing the low-level APIs, searching for a way to write a little utility to do this for me, but Apple doesn't expose a way to set the kMDItemKind attribute. I was hoping there was a way to explicitly set the file type for specific files, but that doesn't seem possible. Anyone know of a way?
Is it possible to create a user-defined attribute and then have Spotlight use that value to determine which importer to use?
Thanks,
Erik
G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Processing Raw in a 3rd Party Application
You can also process your Raw with a 3rd Party app like ACR or Photoshop. But iPhoto does not handle this gracefully and it's a bit of a kludge.
First off set your preferred app as an external editor in iPhoto:
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Note that iPhoto sends a copy+ of the file to Photoshop, so when you save be sure to use the Save command, not Save As... If you use Save As then you're creating a new file and iPhoto has no way of knowing about this new file. iPhoto is preserving your original anyway.
Next: In the iPhoto Preferences -> Advanced, elect to use Raw with your External editor:
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This means that you will have your Original Raw and the processed version in iPhoto but they will not be recognised as version and original. iPhoto will see them as two separate shots.

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