Make new window inactive/open in background in 5.1.7

Hi,
I have an MBA 2011 with 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7. I am very shortsighted and have struggled with the poor contrast levels between tabs and the rest of the Safari UI. My solution has been to switch off tabs, use windows instead. and configure my right option key as an App Expose shortcut. This works very nicely, but the only fly in the ointment is that when I click on a link I wish to open in a new window, it defaults to always opening in a new ACTIVE window, when I'd usually prefer it to open in the background as per tabs.
I have checked and unchecked the option in the 'tabs' preference pane with no luck- do I need to re login to make this stick? CMD-Click works to a point, but it's not reliable, and I find it finicky, even though I've routed it to a touchpad gesture through BetterTouchTool. Is there any other way to force safari to open new windows in the background - perhaps by adding a new item to the context menu? I'd really like to resolve this as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome to Safari, especially with ML coming very soon.
Thanks.

As a retired webmaster I found this issue interesting.
It is a pity browsers don't give us more control over such issues.
If this http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-hyperlinks/#target0 is ever implemented it will be easy to control it via a local style sheet. Please note that despite the age of this document there is little sign of any progress.
I think a local style sheet could do it in IE and Firefox with a combination of css, XML and JavaScript although I have not tested it.
There may be browser extensions and applications which can do it but the only one I found did not appear to have a version I could test on my OS. Safari now has the hooks for it if anybody wants to write an extension.
Your cmd-click method appears to work for me. The following shows my Safari 5.0.6 settings. I got the impression that it did not work when I first tried it but after a little playing with the settings it appears to be reliable. I did not need to login again but I may have closed and opened Safari preferences a few times.
Can you describe in what way this is not reliable for you? Is it reliable for you with a conventional mouse and keyboard?

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