How to activate window, not app?

Question

I'm trying to write a very simple applescript to just create a new
Terminal window and set it to be frontmost (i.e. so it has focus)
without raising all the other Terminal I have open. The following
creates the new Terminal window but results in all the other Terminal
windows I have open behind my other windows being raised, which I'm
trying to avoid:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script ""
end tell
I stumbled on an old thread that seemed to be asking the same
question at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.lang.applescript/browse_frm/thread/31a26 61b7ee29f06, but I don't see how the example given accomplishes this. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Josh
[Note: Cross posted from http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.lang.applescript/browse_frm/thread/b1fee 62777be00e2, as I haven't had any responses on the newsgroup.]

Answer 1

_PLEASE NOTE_: A few hours ago I inadvertently posted this as a reply to Pierre L. (which is okay, as I'd like him to have a look at it as well). But, in the meantime, I've made a very small change to the Finisher_.app, and I've included that in this response -- it's probably totally unnecessary, but could conceivably improve the overall reliability of this approach. There is one other issue I'm a bit concerned about (although I haven't had any problems); but, if you should get an error message regarding the PID number ("doesn't exist"), let me know and I'll see what I can do about it.
No promises, and I've sort of lost track of your original goal, but you might try this double-pronged approach:
1) paste this script into your editor and save it as "Starter_" _as an application to the desktop_:
tell application "Terminal"
set visible of every window whose visible is true to false
do script ""
set WinID_ to item 1 of every window
end tell
tell application "Finisher_" to activate
2) Now paste the following script into a fresh editor window and save it as "Finisher_" _as an application to the desktop_:
set PIDlist_ to do shell script "ps -cx"
set PIDcnt_ to count paragraphs of PIDlist_
repeat with i_ from 1 to PIDcnt_
set TarPar_ to paragraph i_ of PIDlist_
if TarPar_ contains "Starter_.app" then
set Starter_PID to characters 1 through 5 of TarPar_ as string
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
tell application "Terminal" to activate
do shell script "kill " & Starter_PID
*From this point on, ignore the Finisher_.app on the desktop* (it probably can be saved elsewhere).
Now arrange the desktop as you wish, with Terminal windows you can afford to lose (but I don't expect you will). Then double-click "Starter_.app" and see what that buys you. Once again, the original Terminal windows should be retrievable by quitting and relaunching Terminal.
This works for me to bring up a new Terminal window (only) at the front of all windows of other applications, with Terminal in focus. And, once again, seems to me a lot of other things could be accomplished with this approach, but we'll see.