Ok, I went back to the first post of that thread and read all the way to yours, and you are right! It is exactly what I'm looking for.
nice, i'm glad I could point you to some usefull informations
It just took me a little bit to grasp the concept of host-strings an stuch in Keyclone. I'll be setting that up tonight!
yeah, I also had to read it 2 or 3 times to understand the beauty of the system, but till then i'm simply blown away by it
For the setup: Take some time to do it, it is a little bit complex and if you want to try first if you understood the concept, perhaps only do it for 2 or 3 of your toons.
Some things to remember for a successful setup:

- make sure, that you didn't have already bindings of your assist and follow key with modifiers. (i had an binding for shift+1, while using 1 as assist-key, this caused a little of "why the heck doesn't it work...")
- don't use F1....F12 for the two keys (some users had problems with this