I know this thread is a little old, but I just tried the above and it almost worked. It does work, but I have to press the function keys twice, which is a little annoying.

I tried getting the apple script to send the keystroke twice, but that didn't work. Perhaps Quicksilver is missing the keystrokes, though it never does when I use it for launching apps.

Are there any settings or scripts to work around this? I assume others are not having the same problem.

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I sort of solved my own problem, well, found a different way of achieving the same result, and am posting for anyone else who may be trying to solve this problem. I manually edited ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist to change the Spaces hotkeys to be the function keys with no modifier.

Some info on how to do this was taken from:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/tips/remap_function_keys.html

The relevant numbers in the plist file for my 8 spaces (on my machine at least) were 118-125. There are three parameters: 65535 (not sure what this means), hotkey#, modifier.

The modifiers are (taken from the site above, I only checked a few of them):
None - 0 (what I used)
Command - 1048576
Shift - 131072
Control - 262144
Option - 524288

The key numbers to use the function keys are possibly different for different keyboards? mine were:
F1 - 122
F2 - 120
F3 - 99
F4 - 118
F5 - 96
F6 - 97
F7 - 98
F8 - 100

Once I hacked this file, I logged out and in again before the shortcuts would work. It seems to be working fine, and I don't seem to have broken anything else!

Now to get rid of those annoying sliding transitions...

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