Itunes Match on Mac OS v10.5.8

I've tried searching the forum before posting this question, but could not find anything that addressed my concerns. I'm wondering if anyone has iTunes Match running on OS 10.5.8 (Leopard). I have iTunes 10.5.2, and it gives me the option to subscribe to iTunes Match. I'm worried of subscribing, then finding out iTunes Match does not support on 10.5.8. The Apple website says 10.6.8 is the minimum system requirement, but I find it weird that iTunes will give me the option of subscribing when it clearly knows what my OS version is.
So the question I have is can anyone definitively tell me that iTunes Match can or cannot run on 10.5.8? Please dont refer me to the posted minimum system requirements, I'm looking for previous experience (trial and error) of people that have tried (or are using) iTunes Match on 10.5.8.
Thanks,

As of today, we have iTunes Match running on Lion (laptops), and Snow Leopard (old "desklamp" iMac). We discovered today that there was an update to iTunes fortThe Snow Leopard machine, so we enabled it. It doesn't have any songs on the drive, so everything that shows up in iTunes is from iTunes Match. I haven't tried downloading anything, but it all seems to be there.
However, before I found the way to get my new Apple ID into iTunes on the iMac, it did want me to subscribe again. Out of curiosity, I hit the button. it told me that temporarily they weren't taking any more subscriptions (U.S. here). once they allow people to subscribe again though, I can't imagine you could complete the subscription unless the machine you were subscribing from supported it.

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