Starting Itunes to play using MS Task Scheduler

Hello everybody
Does anyone know how to start Itunes and have it start play the party group using the Windows Task scheduler? I am using WinXP and the latest ITunes version.
I've tried 'itunes /play' which starts ITunes but it does not play.
is Itunes not capable of this? or am i using the wrong command line switch?
thanks for all your help in advance.

Hi LordTim,
>>However, I cannot get Access to load<<
How did you load the Access? Did you use Access object to automate the Access applicaiton?
If I understood correctly, did Access load successfully when you in a normal script?
If yes, I think the issue may relative to the Task Scheduler. I suggest that you get more effective response from
Windows Community forum about Task Scheduler issue.
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