Applescript Studio and Menus

I am using Applescript Studio and Leopard.
I have created an application that has menus in it. I can call the menus fine.
For example, this works:
on choose menu item theObject
if (name of theObject is "Test Menu 1") then
display dialog "You chose Test Menu 1"
end if
end choose menu item
All I want to do is have the user make a choice from the menu, and based on that choice, call an external script. I'm stumped. Any help with this?
on choose menu item theObject
if (name of theObject is "Test Menu 1") then
-- What goes here?
end if
end choose menu item

Sample code.
Note:
Four (4) menu items were added to the projects' 'File' menu, and titled 'External Script "Eins"' (Command 1), 'External Script "Zwei"' (Command 2), 'External Script "Drei"' (Command 3), and 'External Script "Vier"' (Command 4).
Four (4) script files were created ('Eins.scpt', 'Zwei.scpt', 'Drei.scpt', and 'Vier.scpt') and saved to the 'Desktop'. The 'Drei.scpt' and 'Vier.scpt' files were dragged to the projects 'Groups & Files' list into 'Resources'.
-- Code starts here --
on choose menu item theObject
-- Example of calling scripts - external to the AppleScript Studio application.
if ((name of theObject) is "externalScript01") then run script (((path to desktop from user domain) as string) & "Eins.scpt") as alias
if ((name of theObject) is "externalScript02") then run script (((path to desktop from user domain) as string) & "Zwei.scpt") as alias
-- Example of calling scripts - internal to the AppleScript Studio application.
if ((name of theObject) is "externalScript03") then run script (((path to me) as string) & "Contents:Resources:Scripts:Drei.scpt") as alias
if ((name of theObject) is "externalScript04") then run script (((path to me) as string) & "Contents:Resources:Scripts:Vier.scpt") as alias
end choose menu item
-- Code ends here --

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