Stream recorded clips as psedo-live for online tv channel

Hey all - I'm really new to flash server (as in hours), and I'm hoping there's a way to do this in server 3.5 without too much trouble...
I'm looking to setup a tv channel type stream where I can create a server side playlist that can stream out prerecorded FLV's at specific times, so all clients are viewing the stream as if its a live video channel. Certain clips need to play at specific times, etc. It says in the server docs that "Flash Media Server allows you to create a mixture of live and recorded streams and play them in a preprogrammed sequence as one stream using server-side playlists"
I can think of ways to implement this with some clever client scripting, but it seems the server has support for this. But I can't figure out how to do it, there's not much info in the Developer Guide about server side playlists. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems like a common feature people would want.
Thanks for the help!
-Mike

Thanks guys, I'm just making sure I wasn't missing something.. sure would be nice to be able to schedule playlists so people could run their own pseudo-tv channels... Wowza seems to have a free plugin for this, and I've seen it implemented on http://66.135.33.137/apps/st79g5qt8lvh8cymluwx/TVStation/tvstation_viewer.html (called TV Station 1.8, a free service from Influxis http://www.influxis.com/applications/tvstation/?gclid=CK_FipHu85oCFRYiagodFH66eQ)
I can totally do this client side (I am an as3 programmer), but would have been a lot nicer/easier if the server had capability for this. I'll certainly request it - thanks for the feature request link!

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