Assigning keyboard layout automatically to certain applications?

i want to assign my keyboard layout to automatically switch to swedish or US when i switch to certain applications. the reason is because of some keyboard layout collision with shortcuts bug in some applications.
example: i use swedish layout in my writing apps like text edit, mail and ichat, and US layout in some of my working apps because of the shortcut bug problems. so when i switch to ichat i want the keyboard layout to autmomatically switch to swedish and when i switch back to the working app id like it to switch to US.
so far ive used the input menu, but its a drag doing that all the time, i did assign the input menu switching to a shortcut which makes the process a bit easier but sometimes i tend to forget to do it and the application shortcuts stop functioning when i activate the buggy app and i have to restart it. ugh!
also i tried with checking the "allow a different input source......" setting in international but its just really what im looking for.
anyway, it gets really annoying doing this manually everytime when switching, which i do really often.
is there a way to do this, maybe some third party application? i've tried to google it but i didnt find an app that lets me do such a configuration.
powerbook hi-res 7200rpm Mac OS X (10.4.3)

im not sure how that OS9 keyboard layout thing works
but im not using classic at all on my computer.
The point is that you can use OS9 keyboard layouts that are based on KCHR resources in OS X just by changing the name and installing them in Users/username/Library/Keyboard Layouts. I have no idea if it would solve your problem, but I think it would be worth a try. You can download Swedish.rsrc here (using a Mac):
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/fs/FileSharing9.html
Another approach is to take a keyboard that does work and try editing it so it works like a Swedish layout even though programs think it is US or whatever.

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