Applescript open action and quarantine items

Question

Hi,
I have a simple applescript droplet, but not all dropped files are being passed to the open handler. It appears that the problem is with files that have the com.apple.quarantine attribute set. If I drop a single file with this attribute set, the droplet runs as expected. If I drop multiple files, the ones with the com.apple.quarantine attribute are silently exclude from the list. Here is a sample the exhibits the problem:
open theDropped
          display dialog "Dropped " & (theDropped's length) & " items"
end open
Say I drop five files on the droplet, and three of them have the quarantine attribute set, the droplet will pop a dialog saying "Dropped 2 items". If I drop one file WITH the quarantine attribute set it will say "Dropped 1 item". I have confirmed by looking at "theDropped" that it is the items with the quarantine attribute that are not making in on the list. If I first clear the quarantine attribute using xattr, everything works as expected.
How can I make the open handler see these "quarantined" files? I know I can preprocess the files to remove the attribute, but that just avoids the real problem.
Thanks!

Answer 1

'Mail' has been brutally cut off at the knees. No actual trying to send a click to any of its elements works any more.
BAD Apple!
I've tried the following without success. If only I could send a click to the first element, the required menu item would activate. 
set SaveAttachmentsMenu to true
tell application "Mail"
  activate
  set WindowCount to count of windows
  open item 1 of messages of mailbox "* items to store" # drafts mailbox
  set x to 0
  repeat # wait until the message is really open.
  tell current application to delay 0.1
  set x to x + 1
  if x > 40 then exit repeat
  if (count of windows) > WindowCount then exit repeat
  end repeat
  tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
  tell current application to delay 1
  try
  select scroll area 1 of window 1
  click
  end try
  try
  tell scroll area 1 of window 1
  set {xPosition, yPosition} to position
  set {xSize, ySize} to size
  end tell
  -- modify offsets if hot spot is not centered:
  click at {xPosition + (xSize div 2), yPosition + (ySize div 2)}
  display dialog xPosition & tab & yPosition as text
  on error errmsg
  display dialog errmsg
  end try
  tell current application to delay 0.2
  if exists menu item "Save Attachments…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1 then
  keystroke "a" using command down
  if not enabled of menu item "Save Attachments…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1 then say "attachments disabled"
  click menu item "Select All" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
  set x to 0
  try
  click menu item "Save Attachments…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
  end try
  repeat until exists sheet 1 of window 1
  tell current application to delay 0.1
  set x to x + 1
  if x = 40 then
  set SaveAttachmentsMenu to false
  exit repeat
  end if
  end repeat
  end if
  end tell
end tell
SaveAttachmentsMenu