[ic] count results when all results are on the page - scratch var inside an item-alternate

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Russ Mann)]

Hello,

I have a search in foundation demo with these parameters:

fi=products
st=db
co=1
sf=sku
se=os
op=rm
nu=0
bs=1
su=1
ml=9999
tf=category
to=x

As you can see, I want all the products to show up, with no [more-list]
links.  However, I need to know the total number of results I'm getting.

These tags do not show anything, because everything is on this page:
[more-list]
[seti matches_count][match-count][/seti]
Matches [matches] of [match-count] found.
[more]
[/more-list]

Is there any other way to get this information?  Any $CGI vars or other?

What I'm hoping to do with the [match-count] is divide it in half and place
it inside the [search-list] in a [item-alternate ] tag like this:
[perl]$Scratch->{half_matches} = $Scratch->{matches_count} / 2;[/perl]
[item-alternate [scratch half_matches]]

Premilinary tests with this have not been successful.  Are there any ideas
out there on how to get item-alternate to work with a "variable" number of
items?

Thank you,

Russell Mann