"Application" workflow bypassing step

My G3 iBook runs Tiger 4.11 and classic 9.2.2 which is activated at startup. To help someone who is not too computer savvy I have written a 2 step workflow - the first does some cleanup (no output) and the second invokes a classic program.
When I run this from inside automator it goes well, but if I save it as an application and invoke that, the first step completes and the whole thing finishes. (Although I am sure it worked when I first wrote it.)

There is only one workflow of 2 steps.
First step is Run AppleScript which always runs and has no output.
Second step is Launch (Classic) Application. This runs when the workflow is run in Automator, but not when it has been saved as an Application and Double Clicked.
In the second case the Menu Bar shows step 1 completing and then goes blank.
There is no error message.

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Message was edited by: Pyrolistical

When you run that script as an application it comes to the front and is therefore the frontmost application: it doesn't have a window to be maximised.
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GURPRIT BHATIA
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