Desktop Shortcut in non-Default browser?

Good Evening,
I have Google Chrome set as my default browser in Lion. To access certain DOD websites I have to use Safari since it can access my PKI smartcard and chrome can't. I'd like to create a few desktop shortcuts for these websites to open in Safari, not chrome. I can drag the URL to the desktop and it creates the shortcut. I right clicked on the icon and changed the "open with" to Safari but when I then double click the icon it still opens in the default browser, Chrome.
Any mac geniuses out there who know of a script or something to force those specific desktop shortcuts to open in Safari(not default browser) vs Chrome (default browser)?
Thank you!

This isn't working for me for a URL I want to force open in Firefox (Chrome is my default). Right-click "open with" works. But, even after changing the "open with" in "get info" to Firefox, it opens in Chrome.
Changing ".webloc" to ".webbookmark" broke it entirely. It does open in FF, but as an XML file that outputs this:
<plist version="1.0"><dict><key>URL</key><string>[URL]</string></dict></plist>
Any ideas? Thanks.

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