Keyboard shortcuts to run app

I am having some trouble in this area, being a decade+ Windows user - I want to have a keyboard shortcut (like... Ctrl + Cmd + V will open VLC Player)
I've found the Keyboard Shortcuts under Keyboard & Mouse, which seems to add keyboard shortcuts depending on the application, but these seem to require the exact menu title within the app.
What I want is to run the app itself, globally, within any window, by pressing a key combination.
Is this possible? Easy? I figured I was missing something since everything else has been easily intuitive for me.
Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Setek, I followed all of those steps, modifying them to correct for a syntax error I got. Everything seemed to work. I have “Terminal” as menu option available for all applications, with a keyboard shortcut associated (and displaying) with it. Bizarrely, the keystroke works in Safari, but not elsewhere that I found. Finder is silent. Text Edit and Mail make a “bonk” sound, as they do for other invalid key presses.
What I tried follows. Let us know how it works for you!
First step, need to enable the AppleScript Menus Extra (if you have not already):
Applications > AppleScript > AppleScript Utility
Check Show Script Menu in menu bar (checkbox)
To make things easier, then open your Scripts folder:
Script Menu (icon) > Open Scripts Folder > Open User Scripts Folder
This is the location where your compiled script needs to be saved.
Open up Script Editor (in the same folder as AppleScript Utility) and past in the following code:
tell application "Finder"
open application file "Terminal.app" of folder "Utilities" of folder "Applications" of startup disk
end tell
In Script Editor, Save selecting “application” as the File Format. Script Editor by default put this in Documents. So I moved the result to the User Script Folder. (Alternatively, one can save directly to Home > Library > Scripts.)
After saving, Script Editor should reformat the lines above. You can test the script to make sure it works. You can quit Script Editor if you like.
At this point I have “Terminal” as the bottom most item in my the Script Menu.
The final step is adding a keystroke shortcut, as I showed earlier today for Window > Zoom.
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts (tab) > + (button)
Application: All Applications
Menu Title: Terminal
Keyboard Shortcut: Control-Command-T (Command-Option-T is used)
So long as the Scripts Menu is available, this shortcut keystroke should be available.
Modify the above directions as you like for other applications.

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