Run GUI app with sudo privileges and no need for Terminal?

I try to use 'Locator' (the GUI version of the 'locate' command) but find that it can't update its database without root privileges, which defeats the GUI-ness of it.
Can it be set up to be 'run as administrator' a la Vista?

Not on my machine. Might you have changed it?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-*//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"*>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.locate</string>
<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb</string>
</array>
<key>LowPriorityIO</key>
<true/>
<key>Nice</key>
<integer>5</integer>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<dict>
<key>PathState</key>
<dict>
<key>/var/db/locate.database</key>
<false/>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
<key>Weekday</key>
<integer>6</integer>
</dict>
<key>AbandonProcessGroup</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

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