Publishing a new calendar in iCal

No I'm not in the wrong forum
My aim is to do that using AS. I have read through the iCal dictionnary, but haven't found an entry that seems to do the trick, but then I might have missed it, since the GUI menu names and dictionnary entries have surprisingly different terminology. (GUI: got to date, ASD: show date, for eg.).
Unfortunately the menu item has no keyboard shortcut, so the possibility of GUI-scripting that is not as easy. I'm not very confortable with GUI scripting menu items using "UI Elements Inspector" (in fact never done it , it just seems prone to break down sooner or later).
I need to publish the calendar to the .mac account we have and was wondering "will I have to quit iCal, write to plist file and relaunch"*, or is there a simpler way ?
TIA,
J.
*If there is not, I would appreciate some insight on how to do that sketchy piece of work.

I see... Is it something you have already done and if so, could you give me a bit of help ?
Up to now, I was able to add the iCal menu down where you can add applications, but I'm not sure how to add the keyboard shortcut;
I'm prompted to type the exact menu name, but to my knowledge, a menu item has a menu name and a menu item name. How come there is only one name ? Is it a combination of the two ? Are there any recommendations in the choice of keys ?
And once that is set up, from where can I type the shortcut ? Is it system wide (when typed by a user) or is it app-specific ? Finally, do I use as expected System Events to tell iCal the shortcut to be typed ?
TIA
J.

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