Need automator or applescript to change a setting in Safari with a keypress

I'm new to applescripting and automator, so bear with me. I found a .css file that stops annoying ads, flash ads, etc in Safari. It's great and makes the pages load faster and clean. And to implement it, you just have to click on "preferences" (in Safari), then "advanced" and enable or disable custom style sheets. I know from experience with Omniweb and Camino that sometimes when you block all flash and ads that some webpages don't load correctly. Some guys say they just keep two browsers running and when the one that loads clean doesn't bring up things they want, they just open the standard browser and reload the page. That's a lot of work. It would be easier to change the advanced preferences in Safari to either run the .css file or not with the press of a key. Does anyone have a clue how to make, say an Fkey to toggle, or two Fkeys (one turns on style sheet and one turns off) to do this task? Thanks for any help.

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Or better yet is there a way I can select every path item of a layer and change its color that way?
Something like the following:
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