Change "Location" with a script?

Dear all,
I am working in two different (network) environments and need to change both network settings (proxy, ...) and also computer settings (CUPS server) and some environment variables depending on my physical location. For the latter two I have a little bash script that does that conveniently.
But changing the network always requires a few clicks extra... I was wondering if it was possible to change the network environment ("Location" in the Apple menu) by a script (I tried with AppleScript and Automator but didn't find anything) or to run a script automatically whenever I change the Location. This way I would only have to run either the script or change the Location to adjust all settings.
Can anyone help me here?
Thanks a lot,
Leonard

Hi Pierre,
Thank you. Your point number 3 was the solution. (I actually wanted to mark your message as "solved"... Now I have marked the question as "answered").
While this works, ideally I would like to have one script that does both the changes to the shell (for this I already have a shell script) and the changes to Mac OS.
On http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/Appl eScriptX/Concepts/workwithas.html I found a way to call an AppleScript from the shell (using the #!/usr/bin/osascript interpreter) -- but if I run the script you sent I get
142:166: execution error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713)
In fact I would prefer the script to run without user interaction, i.e. to just put in the name of the location that I want to switch to and not display a selection box. I would then just create two or three scripts for my most frequently used locations. I tried a few variants but I didn't manage to set 'R' which is probably the variable containing the new location to a fixed value. Could I ask you again for help with this?
Thanks again,
Leonard

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