Pernis took a risk to leave his box and make a clearance, giving St Johnstone an opening, but the hosts failed to make anything of the opportunity.
Whittaker, a scorer the last time these two sides met in 2008, was unsuccessful with a delicate lob when the ball broke to him in the box off a headed clearance.
Enrique got back well to cover Pennant's run into the box, but his attempted clearance cannoned off the winger's shin and looped agonisingly over Harper and into the net.
Miralem Pjanic's weak free-kick was easily blocked by the wall but the ball was hoofed back into the box where Ciani completely misjudged his clearance, with Mathieu Bodmer thumping the ball across goal for Lopez to divert home.
In a frantic finale to the first 45 minutes, Walter Samuel threw himself in front of Malouda as he drove into the box, while Motta rescued Inter with a goalline clearance as Anelka forced a shot beyond Cesar.
Taouil also sent a drive whizzing past the right-hand post and Hibs' Derek Riordan had the last word in stoppage time, meeting a clearance to the edge of the penalty box and volleying it agonisingly on to the crossbar.
Marcus Hahnemann's clearance was flicked on by Long and he ran into the box to meet Doyle's pull-back and slot his side in front.
Matt Taylor's free-kick rebounded off the bar and eventually fell at the feet of Danny Simpson, whose clearance bounced off a Bolton player and into the path of Lee in the box who calmly slipped the ball past Krul.
The winger seemed to be barged to the ground in the six-yard box by Chris Maguire but still managed to get his shot away and, though Andrew Considine made a clearance, referee Mike Tumilty ruled that the ball had already crossed the line.
Maurice Ross' centre was met by a slack clearance from the Hamilton defence and McDonald showed composure to find the net from the edge of the box.
Boyd almost doubled Rangers' advantage seven minutes before half-time when he turned in the box and sent a powerful drive towards goal but Mihael Kovacevic got back to make a crucial goal-line clearance.
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