This may be relevant
>From another list to which I subscribe

>> A reason NOT to update:
>>
>> It seems that AppleScript v1.7, which comes with OS 9.2.2 (and OS X),
>> has a problem when running scripts from the internal script menus of
>> applications such as Entourage or Outlook Express under 9.2.2,
>> although they run just fine in OS X. Scripts run very slowly or time
>> out. Paul Berkowitz, who writes many scripts for these applications,
>> reports on an Entourage mailing list that "Other things in
>> AppleScripts or applets will break in AppleScript 1.7 running in OS
>> 9.2.2 (but are OK in AppleScript 1.7 in OS 10.1.1) - especially
>> Finder calls and scripts which 'open for access with write
>> permission' to create new files - they are no longer automatically
>> text files, so they can't open or print by the Finder (which might
>> time out anyway) unless you assign them a creator by the Finder
>> (might time out) or just give them a ".txt" extension - then they're
>> text files."
>>
>> --
>> Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word
>> Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
>> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage:
>> <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>

Don't know if this is the your problem, but it may very well be.