Searching for Project file through Sequence name

I have forgotten the title of the project, but know the names of the sequences within the project. How can I search by the sequence name to locate the project? I have Windows 7 and the project is either in Premiere Pro 5.5 or 6.0. Thank you very much!

If you look in a .proprj file from CS6 and before you will see it is just XML. Simply formatted text. On a PC, use Wordpad to open a copy of a project and you will see what I mean. Not Notepad because it doesn't understand XML, but Wordpad works OK. Just search a file you know has a sequence you know the name of.
So, if you know the name of the sequence, yes, it is in plain text that can be searched. The program I suggested can find it. The reason I use that program is that it allows me to change a menu or link on every web page on my site all at once.

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