[Tim Wood]

Ah; it should work with tasks just fine too -- you can do "select {MyTask1}" to select the task, but since tasks only show up in the content tree, you'd do:

tell content of front document window
select {MyTask}
end

to select the task. This works the same in project & context mode -- you can switch which mode the window is in by setting the document window's view mode identifier (there is a 'available view mode identifiers' list, currently just "project" and "context" and a 'selected view mode identifier').