Keyboard shortcut to pick a specific keyboard from the input menu

Is it possible to switch to a particular international keyboard layout with a keyboard shortcut? I have a need for a number of layouts, so the built-in ability to cycle through them all is not convenient. I would like to be able to press a key combination and know that I've been taken to, say, Cyrillic, and use another set of keys for, say, Greek, etc.
In the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane, I am actually able to specify keys for the various keyboards that I use by specifying the program "SystemUIServer" from /System/CoreServices. When I do this, the keyboard shortcuts I have picked appear in the Input Menu as if everything were going nicely. The menu lists various hotkeys as it should -- but they do nothing at all when the keys are actually pressed.
I would be happy with anything that allows me to do what I want to do -- an automator script, say -- but so far I've had no luck. For the record, I have iKey on my system, but I cannot figure out how to control keyboard layouts there either.
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

..." In the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane, I am actually able to specify keys for the various keyboards that I use"...
You're almost there - keyboard shortcuts assigned to menu items displayed on the right side of the screen won't trigger unless they are given keyboard focus. One way to do this is to use the keyboard shortcut for "Move focus to status menus in the menu bar" shortcut (see the "Keyboard & Mouse" pref pane). That key combo will switch focus to the first item on the left, and focus to other items can be gained by using the arrow keys. Once focus is on the "Input" menu, the assigned custom shortcut should work.
To streamline the process, the "Move focus to status menu..." shortcut can be assigned to something more convenient, and the "Input" menu can be Cmd (⌘)-dragged to the left-most position. That way, it should be possible to switch to the desired input method using a relatively simple two-step keyboard combination.

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