Timing is everything and it turns out that a couple of the CRM Team have written articles that show two techniques that actually need to utilize on my current CRM gig.. 

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie shows us how to call CRM web services from JavaScript:

Calling “CRM” Web services using JScript

and Michael Ott shows us how to execute a saved user query ( Advanced Find type ):

Running saved or user queries from an SDK application on CRM 3.0

 

Excellent work. Thanks guys.