Artboard Action/Script Crop to Artwork Bounds

I have just finished manually cropping the artboard to fit the artwork bounds for 1500 files.
It is not possible to create an action or keyboard shortcut for artboard options. It is not even possible to set and save another default artboard size.
AI CS4 ships with sample scripts to add artboards, but I understand that it is not currently possible to write a script to modify the properties of a file's existing artboard.
There are several messages on the Illustrator forums requesting help to create an action to crop the artboard to the artwork, so this must be a reasonably common problem.

Does this help anyone?:
You can automatically create a new Artboard to fit precisely around any object by 1. Selecting the object, 2. Selecting the Artboard Tool, and then 3. Clicking on the object with the Artboard Tool. A new artboard will appear which wraps tightly around your object. Your old artboard will still be there, but you can zap it right away since the Artboard Tool is still active, or you can just note the Artboard number for when you go to export.
It's not a perfect solution, but nothing ever is with Adobe Illustrator.
When I used Corel Draw I could simply select anything and export it and the result would be cropped to the object.
Sigh.

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Since FitArtboard to Artwork bound and Fit artboard to Selected, are available under object->Artboard menu , you can definately Create a customized shortcut for this functionality and use them
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Seems to be one of these temperamental flakey things that sometimes conks out. I imagine trashing preferences would fix it, but it's not worth it since the workaround works (albeit clunkily):
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001.jpg (6.94 KiB) Viewed 1 time
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