AppleScript error on Tiger only: "can't make file into type alias"

Hi,
I'm successfully using this smart TextWrangler applescript from this webpage for opening files on the same folder as the current document:
http://blog.ampli.fi/textwrangler-open-file-from-directory-of-current-file/
It works fine on Mountain Lion.
However, when I try it on Tiger 10.4.11, this error dialog appears: "TextWrangler got an error: Can't make [file] into type alias".
The script basically gets the path of the current document in TextWrangler and posts a file chooser on such path.
I guess these are the lines that Tiger doesn't like:
set current_path to POSIX path of current_file
set new_file to choose file default location (current_path) with multiple selections allowed
open new_file
After googling for the error "can't make [] into type alias", I tried to change such lines to:
set current_path to (POSIX path of (current_file as alias))
set new_file to choose file default location (current_path) with multiple selections allowed
open new_file
But, however, the same error remains.
Do you have any idea on how could this work?
Thanks!

wow, 10.4...
try this:
set current_path to current_file
set new_file to choose file default location (current_path) with multiple selections allowed
open new_file
I'm not certain when the standard applescript dialogs were updated to accept posix paths, but it may have been 10.5.

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