Using Garageband as a sound source?

We have been trying to find a solution to the speed-change dilemma with GB - I have a 13 mins Cubase project that has 52 speed changes in it. It has been suggested by a Cubase person that we link the composer's Cubase PowerBook to our GB Desktop and use it as a Sound source, routing the audio back to the Cubase Powerbook.
Since we do our final mix in ProTools on this same Desktop we'd rather stay in this one computer. I wondered if anyone had experience of this concept and knew whether we could instead use our Sibelius to run the Cubase project, using GB as sound source and thereby staying in the one Desktop Mac?

Thanks for this - it clears up some of the problems we face. The situation with regard to speed changes in the Garageband interface would settle the problem completely though - if only Apple would add this feature, my life, and other's, would be made easier. She wants at least 8 different voices from GB! A huge task without the speed change feature.
I suppose it comes down to the nature of GB - fantastic quality voices, supplied by GB instead of an outside soundbox, need huge amounts of CPU and adding speed change would require emormous amounts more, above what is already required.
Thanks again.

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