ok! searching the forum for: "open toolbars as popup menu" ...
& found Clipboard Popup Toolbar by steve (2008) in the Tutorials section --
followed along & finally got the thing working --
but the interesting thing is that I prefer the context menu thing I already figured out (see the post above),
as it's faster/more responsive to the context Rclick
than to even the simplest StrokeIt gesture (L, R, Down, etc.)
... Gettin' a little more config'd every day .... Awesome 