Bring background app window to the front from daemon

I have a daemon running that, under certain circumstances, needs to bring an already running applications window to the front (this is a pre login agent), thats not the hard part. The part I'm having trouble with is giving the window firstResponder when it is first brought to the front. When it does not have firstResponder it grayed out and icky....im not a fan of icky. If anyone has any tricks or tips on how one might fix that, they would be greatly appreciated

From the j2sdk 1.4.1 API: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/awt/Window.html#toFront()
toFront()
Some platforms do not allow Windows which own other Windows to appear on top of those owned Windows. Some platforms may not permit this VM to place its Windows above windows of native applications, or Windows of other VMs. This permission may depend on whether a Window in this VM is already focused. Every attempt will be made to move this Window as high as possible in the stacking order; however, developers should not assume that this method will move this Window above all other windows in every situation.
Because of variations in native windowing systems, no guarantees about changes to the focused and active Windows can be made. Developers must never assume that this Window is the focused or active Window until this Window receives a WINDOW_GAINED_FOCUS or WINDOW_ACTIVATED event. On platforms where the top-most window is the focused window, this method will probably focus this Window, if it is not already focused.

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