Gradient Fill Individual Letters of Editable Type, is this possible in Illustrator?

I have a applied a gradient fill to editable point text via the appearance pallete, but that applys the gradient to all the type as a whole. Is there any way to fill each individual letter of the type with a gradient without converting into outlines?
Any help would be appreciated.

I have it working in CS3 I didn't even have to use Effect>Path>Outline Object.
Type the text.
Remove the Default fill in the tool panel.
Text should have no fill. Now use the Appearance Panel to add a fill.
Now with the fill in the Appearance Panel selected, click on a Grad Swatch.

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