Find/Replace text in one Doc based on List from another Doc

I'm not sure Automator can do this so I thought I would ask before spending too much time on it. I have searched the forums and several of the Automator tutorial websites.
What I want to do is take one text file (or it could be an Excel file, I don't care) with a list of words to Find in a folder full of files.
For example I have this list in a txt file:
Big Dog
Furry Cat
Bird
Fox
I would want the action to search every document for every occurrence of 'Big Dog', then search for every occurrence of 'Furry Cat', etc. I would also want to replace each instance with something else, say a formatted html link.
Is something like that even possible with Automator? I am on Snow Leopard but I didn't see a forum for Automator on SL. Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 14 novembre 2008 14:22:47)

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