Changing sound preferences - Applescript

Hi there,
I want to change Sound Input and Sound output settings in System preferences to my Bluetooth headset (Logitech HS04 V01) and back. By one click. I did not found any system option to do it, but there should be the way to do it with applescript.
What I found and modified is this script:
<pre>
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events"
get properties
tell process "System Preferences"
click menu item "Sound" of menu "View" of menu bar 1
delay 3
set theRows to every row of table 1 of scroll area 1 of ¬
tab group 1 of window "sound"
set theOutputs to {} as list
repeat with aRow in theRows
if (value of text field 1 of aRow as text) ¬
is equal to "Logitech HS04 V01" then
delay 1
set selected of aRow to true
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
</pre>
It changes sound output to my Bluetooth headset. But only the output and only one way. How to improve it? How to extend it to change both input and output?
Jirka
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1.33 GHz, 512 MB, 12-inch

Some additional details:
- If I change my sound settings to internal speakers while the USB device is connected they do change, however if I unplug the USB device and plug it back again they changed again to USB device (so it hasn't saved my settings for the USB device).

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