Assign hotkey to screen rotate?

Hi,
I find myself rotating the screen quite often through sysprefs>displays>rotate 90 degs or through the display icon in the menu bar.
However, neither of these methods is really easy. Would there be any way to assign a hotkey that rotates the screen by 90 degrees (and, of course, ideally make it a toggle?).
I've tried to use the new 'watch me do' function in Automator, but one way or the other it didn't work. Shame, because it was the first time I found a real use for it.
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.

How is it possible for you to rotate at all? I have a 2 core MacBook Pro and I can only find the rotate option when I connect an external monito (only rotates the external).
There is an application called SMSRotateD, you only push a button and it turns automatically detecting the position of your mac. The problem is I can only find the demo of it.
I need to rotate mine badly, because I have an inverted stup in my van. I have not being abble to find a way to rotate.
If anyone knows, please let me know.
I have Leopard installed.
Adrian

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As a alternative way, please check wehther you have some video\graphic related software installed in your system, they're always used to control these graphic settings or some hotkey settings, but all depends on the PC model or the graphic card mdoel.
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