Seems to have self resolved....
I had tested it several different ways and was getting the problems I reported, but came back to it later and it seems to work fine.
It still opens a new window, and I'd prefer it to reuse my open one, but that is relatively minor.
I'm a new Journler user, and have put together a toolbar script for creating a Journler entry for a task, with bi-directional linking.
http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthre...4814#post34814
-P