Trying to access topic preferences from another topic in TWiki?

Here's a letter I just wrote to Michael Daum:

Hi, Micha!

I'm still working on Java.eremite.org. I customized the Nat skin so that if I've got a Topic-Level preference called %TOPICTITLE% it overrides the element in the HTML output. It's great, and it's instantly improved my google rankings. I also now place</p> <p>---+ [[%TOPIC%][%TOPICTITLE%]]</p> <p>at the top of my pages, which further assists the search engines.<br /> Now I'm trying to do the same thing for my internal search results. I'm hoping to figure out a way to grab onto that topic-level preference from another topic, preferably as part of a search. Do you know of any way currently to do such a thing?</p> <p>If so, I'd be extremely grateful to hear about it.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> -- <br /> Alex</p> <p><br /> </p> </div> <div id="more" class="entry-more"> </div> </div> <p class="entry-footer"> <span class="post-footers">Posted by <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/alexander_saint_croix.html">Alexander Saint Croix</a> on 28 January 2006 at 05:54 PM</span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/2006/01/trying_to_access_topic_prefere.html">Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="beta"> <div id="beta-inner" class="pkg"> <div class="module-search module"> <h2 class="module-header">Search</h2> <div class="module-content"> <form method="get" action="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi"> <input type="hidden" name="IncludeBlogs" value="2820" /> <label for="search" accesskey="4">Search this blog:</label><br /> <input id="search" name="search" size="20" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </form> </div> </div> <style> .module-list .module-list {margin-left: 16px; list-style-type: disc;} </style> <div class="module-categories module"> <h2 class="module-header">Categories</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/aesthetics/" title="">Aesthetics</a> </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/bibliography/" title="">Bibliography</a> </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/coding/" title="">Coding</a> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/coding/ajax/" title="">AJAX</a> </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/coding/diving_into_ejb_3/" title="">Diving Into EJB 3</a> </li> <li class="module-list-item">Hypercontext </li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/saintx/eremite/coding/open_source/" title="I have spent years working in the Open Source Java arena. 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