How to emulate clicking with keyboard

Is there a way to use keyboard to issue a click at the current mouse location?

System Preferences>Universal Access>Mouse and Trackpad: turn 'Mouse Keys' on. This turns your numeric keypad into keys to move and click the mouse (5 is click) - please see this page for details:"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/cdb_moskys.html
Of course if you do this you can't use the numeric keypad to enter numbers (and if you have one of the small keyboards you'll need a separate numeric keypad).

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