I posted this message to the Smile list a few days ago but it hasn't appeared. Perhaps someone here knows what's happening... Back in 2006 I wrote this script for Eudora users <http://bd8.com/eudora/scripts/#searcheudorasettings> that allows you to search for settings matching a regular expression, and the script continues to work for many users, but users of later versions of Mac OS X have been complaining it doesn't work any more. Since I have no access to anything later than 10.4.11 I have been reluctant to fix the problem and involve myself in long Q&A sessions with users who don't understand AppleScript. However one persistant user finally persuaded me to send him a couple of tests and I discover that AppleScript is eating, annihilating, the entire contents of a handler that is meant to return the full list of Eudora settings. The man in question has opened the script in Script Editor (10.5.8) and something called AppleScript Editor (10.7.*) and on editing and saving the file size shrinks from 199,180 bytes to 9,729 as a result of the emptying of the handler. Now I have no idea how to deal with such rogues and wonder if it would make any difference if they recompiled and saved in Smile, since it seems to be a massive bug in AppleScript. If not, then I shall have to supply the settings in a separate file and have the script read that. But who knows what other deficiencies I will bring to light in the process. Hope someone can enlighten me. Perhaps these people are simply holding their computers by the wrong corner! JD