Missing Link Utility Missing In Action

Missing Link is a utility that allows you to open, run, or launch an application, file, or almost anything else on your Mac from a link or a bookmark in a browser. For example, one of your bookmarks in your Safari bookmarks bar could be "TextEdit" which would, when clicked on, open up the application TextEdit.
Unfortunately (for me, at least), though it worked fine in Panther, Missing Link will not work on my current hardware ... and I miss it so!
Anyone know of an equivalent thing available anywhere? I've done all the normal searches, of course, and have turned up nothing.
Thanks for whatever help you can offer.
iMac 24inch/2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM/250GB Drive/NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac 24inch/2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM/250GB Drive/NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Alan:
Write me from the 'Missing Link Foundation' URL here...
http://www.mhtc.net/~bunnz/scriptlink.html
... and I may be able to get you up and running again on Tiger.
Peter B.

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