It turns out, the graphic my client was testing the script with was  
corrupt and could not be opened with Photoshop CS even manually.

I had asked them to open a file manually, but they didn't use the  
same file!

So, mystery solved!

The alias syntax works just fine.

Happy Friday!

Diana
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