At 11:59 AM -0400 6/6/06, Bill Steele wrote:
>tell current record
>set field "filename" to filename
>end tell
>
>(This is a trick to move a variable from the Applescript to where 
>another Filemaker script step can use it.)
>
>Apparently once it has done this it thinks the script is somehow 
>still connected to that field, even though the script  finished 
>running three minutes ago.  How do I convince it otherwise?

Not a specialist, but I would try cloning the record, I suppose, with "copy"?

Emmanuel