Smart Playlists - Match any/all of the following rules.

Hi.
I am using OSX 10.4.9 and iTunes 7.1.1 (5)
I am hoping to make a smart playlist that has 24 rules. I am hoping to get iTunes to match ANY of some rules and ALL of others... Like this...
- Match ANY of the following rules - Applied to 4 of the rules.
- Match ALL of the following rules - Applied to 20 of the rules.
I hope to do this all in one smart playlist. Anyone know if this is at all possible? Maybe with a script?
I did search with no luck.
Thanks for any help!

All in one smart playlist? I think not, since Smart Playlists only do AND selections, not OR selections. You need the equivalent of an OR selection for your 4 rules, and this has to be done in a round-about way.
You could get at it with sort of a "compound" playlist. To use a simple example, let's say my objective is to have a playlist that has all my tunes that haven't been played since Jan 1, 2007 and are either Blues or songs performed by Al Green. I actually need two playlists to accomplish this. First I create a smart playlist with two statements: Genre IS NOT Blues AND Artist IS NOT Al Green. Let's call it the "Not Blues or Green" playlist (forgive me, that was not intentional). Now, in the second playlist, I can use the statement, Playlist IS NOT "Not Blues or Green", to specify a set of songs that are either blues or done by Al Green. I combine (join with an AND) that statement with the statement, Last Played IS AFTER 12/31/2006, to create the second playlist that gets me to my objective.
For your case, it should also be a two-layer "compound playlist", only with four statements in the first playlist and 21 statements in the second.
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