Simple (you would think) Automator workflow

Hi all,
I have been using Mac for the last 3 years. I have a very good knowledge of computers in general, Unix/Linux in particular but I have never used Automator. I would like to create a very simple application in Automator: when I click on the application icon I want to see a form in which I type the name of a song and as a result I want to see a window that contains all the music files that match that name.
I have no problem in creating this as a unix shell script and I know I can use spotlight (the problem with spotlight is that everytime I have to type the search string, click on Show All, then refine the search by setting Kind=Music etc.)
So I thought it would be a piece of cake to do it in Automator.
I'm using the action "Find Finder Items" with "Name Contains" AND "Kind is Audio". If I run this in automator I get the results I want (if I click on the Results tab). However, when I save it as Application and then double click on it, I get the input window in which I can specify the name of the songs I'm looking for (so far so good) but then nothing appears, the application seems to terminate correctly but I am never presented with the results.
I have tried to add a "Reveal Finder Items" after the first action but that's not what I want as it opens one window for each file that matches my search and each window shows all files, with the one I'm looking for highlighted.
What I need is something similar to spotlight, I want a window to open, showing all files that match. I know I can add more actions and for example copy all files that match into a specific folder then open the folder, but that's a dirty way of solving my problem and a bit of an overkill. Aliases would be slightly better, but still not exactly what I want.
This is driving me crazy, you would think it should be a very easy thing to accomplish with Automator...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
/Pippo

thanks, but it still doesn't do what I want.
1) not all my music is in iTunes, so I can't use the Find in iTunes action
2) adding a Choose from List (as you suggested) after the Find Finder Items now shows me a list of all matches, so that is an improvement, thanks, but I stil can't do anything with that. What I need is a Finder window with the result of the search so that I can simply QuickView the song (or copy it or whatever)
3) using the Finder search is similar to using spotlight, it doesn't do what I want, I don't want to have to type each time that I'm only looking for songs.
I just want an Automator workflow that:
1) asks for a file name
2) searches my computer for audio files that match the name
3) shows the result in a window where I can then work with the files.
it really bugs me that I can't make Automator perform such a simple workflow, I'm sure I'm missing some obvious action.
please help
TIA
/pippo

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set nomde_lexport to nomde_loriginal & "." & extension_export
end if
set cheminde_lexport to dossierde_loriginal & nomde_lexport
• CAUTION, When saving, Numbers doesn't take care of an existing document.
It replaces it by the new one. *)
tell application "System Events"
if exists (file cheminde_lexport) then
Playing safety, we rename the existing file by inserting a modificationdatetime stamp *)
set name of file cheminde_lexport to (text 1 thru -(2 + (length of extension_export)) of nomde_lexport) & my horoDateur(modification date of file cheminde_lexport) & "." & extension_export
end if
end tell -- System Events
• save as type_export document *)
tell application "Numbers" to save document nomde_loriginal as type_export in cheminde_lexport
return {cheminde_lexport, extension_export}
end saveAs
-- =====
on quelNomEtDossier(f)
local nom, dossier
tell application "System Events" to tell file (f as Unicode text)
set nom to name (* Unicode text *)
set dossier to path of container (* Unicode HFS path *)
end tell -- to System Events
return {nom, dossier}
end quelNomEtDossier
--=====
• Build a stamp from the modification date_time
on horoDateur(datedemodification)
local les_secondes
set les_secondes to time of datedemodification
return ("_" & year of datedemodification & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (month of datedemodification as integer)) & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & day of datedemodification) & "_" & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & les_secondes div 3600) & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & (les_secondes mod 3600) div 60) & text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & les_secondes mod 60))
(* Here, the stamp is "YYYYMMDDhhmmss" *)
end horoDateur
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 17 août 2010 18:16:27

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