Regarding your AppleScript issue: I've had trouble getting my GUI actions to be recorded by pointing and clicking with a mouse. I DO get the results I want by outlining the keyboard shortcuts for the specific app. Good luck!
actually, the main point of this particular operation is to have solutions for those strange situations where there is absolutely no keyboard shortcut, nor menu item (if it was a menu item i could make a keyboard shortcut for it, but some software likes to go to more advanced planes of inaccessibility)