Use applescript to create itunes smart playlists

hi
is the subject possible?
my setup uses an intricate system of smart playlists building other smart playlists. when i add a new "theme", as i call it, like "party", "chart", "sad", "happy", etc, i dont want to have to go back through and create dozens of smart playlists each time... that is a job for my friend, applescript!
regards
jingo_man

I am also interested in an answer on this. I'm not an AppleScript guru but I'm learning. My goal is to create a Smart Playlist with two criteria -- one is that the tracks exist in a specific other Smart Playlist and the other is that the track's play count is less than the average play count of all tracks in the other playlist.
I have already managed to use AppleScript to find the average play count of all tracks in a selected Smart Playlist, I just don't yet know how to use that to automatically generate a second Smart Playlist.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1801
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