This is very close to something i've been looking for. Is there a way to modify the script to load up apples frontrow rather than the dashboards? I tried 'tell application "frontrow" to launch' but that didn't work. It returned the error 26:27: syntax error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713).

open -a frontrow

It's a normal command, not an applescript. put it in place of osascript.

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I whacked together a little applescript to launch Front Row on a system (it was part of an app called "Front Row Remote"). The code that I used for the activating of Front Row was:

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tell application "Front Row"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
key code 53
end tell
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You may need to turn on "Enable access for assistive devices" in your Universal Access control panel to allow System Events to send that key stroke (I can't test from where I am).

Good luck.

Thanks for your suggestions guys, i was able to get it to work with one simple change!

then let IDLECOMP=0; osascript -e 'tell application "Front Row" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 53'

cheers