No way to make selected photos the picks of their stacks?

I found myself wanting to select one image from each of a number of stacks then make them each the pick of their stack. Apparently the Pick command operates only on the most recently selected image, even if several are selected. I can see where making multiple images the pick of their stacks would be a UI problem if some of the images were in the same stack, but is there a good reason not to allow setting picks for multiple images when only one per stack is selected?
I thought maybe I could do this in AppleScript, but (a) the picked attribute of an image version is not writeable, and (b) "stack" is not mentioned anywhere in Aperture's AppleScript except in the description of that attribute. I'm thinking of doing a hacky thing where I save a list of the selected image versions, then tell Aperture to select one, issue the cmd-\ keystroke to pick it, then select the next, etc. Anyone have any better ideas?

You're right Make Stack Pick only works on the primary selection most likely because of the issues you bring up. If there were multiple selections in a single stack what would the command do?
As for AppleScript you'll find that it is severely limited in its ability to get at low level items in the Aperture library.
As for you're proposed solution it seems to me that you're going to a lot of trouble to solve a not very frequently occurring problem. As you will have to go through and select each image you want to make a stack pick to add to your list, why not just make it the pick then? You could use the keyboard shortcut for next or previous stack to go from stack to stack and then once in the stack use the arrow keys to get to the image you want to pick than then use the ⌘-\ to make the image the pick.
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