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Someone has already created a nice collection of programs that allow you to use symbolic matrices.  Look for sim.mat.vec (or something like that) in the math directory of Wayne Scott's mailserver.  It's a very powerful collection, and even includes programs for Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions.