Dancing weapon + Smite

[Erik Freund]

I have a two-tiered question with regards to dancing+smite:

A paladin in my party has four abilities worth noting:
- Smite Evil
- Aura of Justice
- an intelligent bastard sword
- an amulet that lets him make any weapon dancing once per day

He wishes to declare smite evil, then grant his intelligent weapon the dancing ability, then wreak havoc. Does this work?

Smite Evil:

Once per day, a paladin can call out to the powers of good to aid her in her struggle against evil. As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Cha bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. ...

dancing:

As a standard action, a dancing weapon can be loosed to attack on its own. It fights for 4 rounds using the base attack bonus of the one who loosed it and then drops. While dancing, it cannot make attacks of opportunity, and the activating character it is not considered armed with the weapon. The weapon is considered wielded or attended by the activating character for all maneuvers and effects that target items. ...

If this does not work, he wants to put dancing on his intelligent weapon, then use Aura of Justice so that the weapon (being an intelligent ally) can use Smite Evil.

Aura of Justice:

At 11th level, a paladin can expend two uses of her smite evil ability to grant the ability to smite evil to all allies within 10 feet, using her bonuses. Allies must use this smite evil ability by the start of the paladin's next turn and the bonuses last for 1 minute. Using this ability is a free action. Evil creatures gain no benefit from this ability.

Any thoughts?

[blahpers]

The paladin can smite with his own attacks, but the weapon cannot.

A dancing weapon is normally not an ally; it is not, in fact, a creature at all, so it would not benefit from the paladin's aura. However, since the weapon is an intelligent item, then it would actually be a creature (specifically, a construct) and thus would be affected by the aura. So go nuts!

(Edited after noticing that the weapon was mentioned as intelligent.)