Applescript Bugs and problems - are these known?

Ok, this stems from my post over at http://bbs.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=101473
Is it just me or is applescript a little buggered on Leopard? I've got 10.5.4 and trying to run up some simple scripts. However I've run into problems including:
- the DELAY command stops the script altogether.
- scripts to send off MAIL stop completely after sending the seventh mail.
Is anyone else experiencing this sort of problem?

From reading that other thread I don't think you're having a problem with AppleScript, I think you're having problems with Mail and Folder Actions. AppleScript is just a means of sending AppleEvents to applications. What those applications then choose to do with those events is entirely up to them, and in Mail's case, it drops the ball pretty often.
delay does not terminate a script's execution for me. The following will run indefinitely as expected:
repeat while true
delay 5
end repeat

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