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macos - Accessing dock icon right-click menu items with AppleScript

Is there any way to get an AppleScript to access the menu items that come up when you right click on a dock icon?

Specifically, here's what I want to do:

I use Google Chrome as my web browser on MacOS X Snow Leopard. I am a keyboard shortcut addict, and I use QuickSilver to create keyboard shortcuts for anything I can. One of the most common things that I do is to open a new web browser window. But I use Spaces frequently to partition my tasks that I am currently working on, and when I open a web browser or web page with a QuickSilver trigger, spaces switches to the last space that I used Chrome on and opens a new tab, which often distracts me for hours because it brings me to a different space and thus a different task. I can fix this by right-clicking on the Google Chrome icon and clicking the "New Window" option, which opens a new window on the current space. But in AppleScript, to do anything with Google Chrome, the first thing I have to do is activate it, which brings me back to the original problem! Can anyone think of a solution to this problem, AppleScript or otherwise? It has become a serious problem. Back when I used Firefox, I solved the problem by changing a preference item that says "Always open pop-up links in a new window" or something like that, which was kind of a sledge hammer approach, but it worked. I can always go back to Firefox, but I thought I'd ask my question here first. Anyone with any ideas?

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 tell application "Dock"
    activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Dock"
        set frontmost to true
        activate
        tell list 1
            perform action "AXShowMenu" of UI element "Google Chrome"
            delay 1
            repeat 4 times -- count number of items to the one you want
                key code 126 -- up arrow
                -- key code 125 -- down arrow
            end repeat
            delay 1
            repeat 2 times
                key code 36 -- return key
            end repeat
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

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