Using an Applet to interface with the computer

h6. Situation
I am trying to build a an Applet, which will allow me to interface with a computer in the same way that a simple 'presentor' does. For clarification a 'presentor' is a piece of hardware that you plug into the computer and then use a radio device to move through the slides.
I cannot think how to do this, though I am sure that it is possible...its Java?! The only way i can kinda see it working is if the Applet emulates a piece of hardware...if that is the case then I think I might be out of my relms of programming. However I appreciate that what I am attempting to do flys in the face of Java in a sense at it runs and exists in a Virtual machine...but there has to be a way....If i can get an Applet to read and write a file on my operating system....then I must be able to get it to emulate a mouse click?
What do you guys think? Am I being to ambitious or just stupid? :)

Ok, here goes :)
Basically I am trying to create a web based Remote Presenter. You know those bits of hardware were you plug the receiver into the PC and then have the hand held device that allows you to skip though slides.
I think that the need for a receiver dongle is pointless, extra stuff to carry around. I am trying to use my Nokia N95 device, with its build in webserver to create something a bit different.
So far I have been able to create an applet that I have signed, that has the ability to open a socket and wait. I have a very simple server app that sends data to that socket, either a 1 or a 0. When the applet receives this value, it performs a mouse click.....
I have now put this applet onto my N95 mobile web server which is basically a very simple apache webserver and I can access the page and download the applet. The next stage is to somehow create a program that can talk though my mobile phone to the applet......
Ultimately, when I give a lecture I will be able to just browse on the PC to the URL of my mobile web site (xxx.mymobilesite.net) and then run an application on my mobile to control the computer......
A lot of work for a simple power point controller...but with the possibility of more....

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