Ed,
I advertised this program a couple of years ago, but no one wanted it. I tried it out again, and I think I may keep it this time depending on licenses.
It's a little program by a nice company Aquarius Soft.
http://www.aquariussoft.com/Basically, it allows you to set up many Windows actions and set your own shortcuts to them. For instance, even though I don't maximize my AC window, I wanted to see if I could before I recommended it to you.
It was very easy. I set up F1 as the trigger key, so that any time I clicked on F1, the active window maximized. Pretty neat.
It's $24.95 for one license and the same thereafter. But, it would keep you from hitting the mouse key and would be quicker than the mouse anyway. I don't think it would be worth it for just one thing, but you can do many things.