How to get better rules (filters) in Mail.app

I love Mail.app, but it's rules criteria implementation doesn't quite do what I want.
I want to be able to match emails on a more complex basis than just "Any" or "All".
For example, I wish to capture all emails that match "X-Mailer: Trac" AND whose body matches EITHER "Changes (by chris):" OR "Comments (by chris):" OR "Changes (by cburgess)" OR "Changes (by cburgess)".
This combines an AND and ANY rule, and I can't see how to do it using Mail's Rule GUI. I also had a look at ~/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist but it's not obvious whether I'm permitted to add nested Criteria dicts.
Anyone know of a mail rules plugin which offers this? I'm using Leopard.
Anyone have pointers to an example AppleScript or external script (Bash, PHP, Python, Perl, ...) which does something like this for IMAP mailboxes?
Thanks in advance!

There is an article on Mac OS X Hints on how to make complex booleans for Smart mailboxes - you might be able to apply it to ~/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.
Edit: usual caveats apply - I haven't tried it so have no idea if it will work; back up the plist before starting; quit Mail before starting.
AK
Message was edited by: Austin Kinsella1

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