RSS, Bookmarks Bar and Auto-Click

As we all know, if you have a folder in your bookmarks bar with auto-click enabled, and that folder has feed:// type bookmarks in it, Safari will automatically aggregate the feeds in that folder into one tab when you click the folder in your bookmarks bar.
Also, if you do not have auto-click enabled and you click the folder in your bookmarks bar and choose "Open in Tabs" - all of the feed:// bookmarks open in their own tab.
What I am trying to figure out is how to get the Auto-Click to open all of the feed:// bookmarks in their own tabs - I do not want to slog through a long rss page of 500 unread articles, and yes I know about the source links on the safari rss pages.
Does not seem to be an option anywhere in Safari, maybe a hack/script/shareware add-on I could use to do this?
THX P
PowerBook G4 Aluminium Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I thought it should have just been there, I just wasn't sure; it had been so long since I set auto-click up. I told him to delete the plist, but it didn't make a difference. Regardless, thanks for the insight, and for responding so promtly. At this point it sounds more like operator error, rather than Safari's problem (which is surprising considering he's been a mac addict since they were on the market, and programs on one every day).
Thanks again!

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