Apple Events and Frontier

[Nick Cahill]

I have been having trouble with Frontier passing Apple Events to 
Filemaker. I'm writing local html files from a Frontier outline, and 
uploading them to my university web server. Part of the script looks up 
an image archive number in a Filemaker database. The Frontier export 
script includes:

with ObjectModel, FileMaker {
	local (DBRow);
	result = exists (record[cell[1] == curImage]);
	if result == false {
		dialog.alert ("couldn't find " + curImage)};
	DBRow =  get(record[cell[1] == curImage]);
	«returns archive; catalog; caption; shape; painter; short description
	if typeOf (DBRow[1]) == "list" { « found more than 1 record; select 
the first by default
		DBRow = DBRow[1]};
	curArchive = DBRow[1];
	curObject = DBRow[2];
	if curCaption == "" {
		curCaption = DBRow[2] + ": " + DBRow[3]};
	curType = DBRow[7];
	Perseus2CDFolder = DBRow[8]}

and so forth.

The script will run for a while, then Filemaker "unexpectedly quit." 
This is using Filemaker 6.0v3 and Frontier 9. The scheme worked 
flawlessly on Frontier 5, 6, and so forth under Mac OS 9, and then has 
been giving me grief under the various flavors of OS X. It stopped 
working with about Frontier 8.0.5; was fixed for a while in the 
AppleEvents beta 8.0.7, and I assume those fixes were incorporated into 
9. But now with OSX 10.2, it doesn't work again. I remember someone on 
the list mentioning that AppleEvents seem to work differently in 10.2 
than they did in 10.1. I really don't want to go back to 10.1, but I 
can't get this to work reliably.

Does anyone have a good suggestion, or an alternative to Filemaker? The 
database is simple, and could be ported to some other software if that 
was more reliable.

Many thanks for any advice,

Nick Cahill