Safari: Keystroke to "Merge All Windows?"

Hello,
Although I am loving Mac OS X Leopard like I've loved no other operating system in my life, I do have one pet peeve that affects Safari specifically.
I wish there was a single window mode to save me the trouble of dealing with multiple cascading windows and such. In this day and age, we simply shouldn't have to worry about window clutter. Tabs are there for a reason--+to save us this trouble.+
It seems that Hao Li is releasing a new version of his famous Saft plugin soon. This will probably include single window functionality, but alas, I've paid for two versions of his product and simply don't feel as though I should have to pay for this new upgrade when Mozilla Firefox offers free add-ons that accomplish what I want.
That being said--and unless someone has any other tips for enabling a single window mode in Safari--my focus is now on the "Merge All Windows" command in the Window menu. It works great, but as far as I can tell, it must be invoked by a mouse click.
Can someone tell me how to assign this command a keystroke?
Thanks

Well, I didn't receive any help from this discussion so I investigated further and found that Mac OS X allows you to customize shortcuts for almost any application via System Preferences > Keyboard.

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