[Brian]

Thanks for finding this, Rob - it is a bug and we'll write it up.

Re: "neglect", all I'll say is that we think it's important that we be sensitive to the way that customers use our apps when planning our work. The number of folks that use AppleScript is very small - and the number of folks that use it in this manner is even smaller.

In an ideal world, we'd be able to spend time fixing this issue, but it would be unfair to the larger community to prioritize this over other work that benefits more customers.