ITunes alarm clock script

Hi,
I'm very interested in starting AppleScript...
My first script I'd like to do is for iTunes to start up in the morning at 07:00 and play a selected track.
Can someone please give me a link for this and offer some tips for a newbie to AppleScript. I really want my Mac experience to grow and be more.
And AppleScript, UNIX, and Terminal seem to be the only way to go from what I've studied thus far. Downloading things like free ware and share ware has gotten pretty blah.
I've downloaded the AppleScript pdf and I'm ready for action!
Thanks,
Michael

these books are pretty useful. (to me they are)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/applescpttdg2/
The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg, second edition.
http://www.spiderworks.com/books/ashandbook.php
Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook Mac OS X Edition.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/applescripttmm/
AppleScript: The Missing Manual.
this thread could be useful.
http://www.devdaily.com/blog/Content/2/21/566/
the code from this application by Romeo Opena could be used as a good learning source on which to base your own alarm clock, the application it's self is pretty cool.
http://scriptbuilders.net/files/itunesmusicalarmclock7.5.1.html
enjoy
Budgie

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i just wondered if its at all possible to have itunes wake up my imac at a pre decided time and start playing music, so it would work as an alarm clock so to speak.
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many thanks
A.

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