i've been trying to use the sendkeys function to trigger some events in another application. everything works fine until i try to do an Alt-v or an F9. this is my syntax:

sendkeys "%(v)" 'alt-v
sendkeys "{F9}" 'f9

i get no response from either of these. i've doubled checked to see that these are indeed the correct keystrokes and that they'll work regardless of cursor location. everything checks out.