CS4: Can Action Call a Script?

Question

For three versions now, Illustrator has had a bug which greatly limits the kinds of things that could be otherwise accomplished with its scripting features.
You can use Insert Menu Item to insert a step in an Action that calls a script from the File>Scripts menu. That Action works during the current work session. But when Illustrator is quit and relaunched, the step is absent from the Action.
Those of you who have touched CS4: Is that fixed?
JET

Answer 1

I have not noticed that there were any different behaviours in the versions since AI 10. All scripts are always electrocuted on all systems I tested. Only two times I saw it happen that an Illustrator relaunch did not kill a script inside an action. I looked for a pattern and observed that the file name of the script that suvived the process only consisted of numbers. As far as I remember, exactly eight numbers. Straightaway I closed Illustrator, restarted it and did the same experiment. The script survived again. But then, the third shot failed, and since then I've never seen a script surviving a relaunch again.
What does work for me reliably is to export an action set full of actions which contain script calls, quit Illustrator, restart it and import the action set. The scripts always survive that procedure and I use it as a workaround. Still pesky, of course, but considering that recreating rather complicated actions with a whole bunch of scripts does take way more time than importing an action set, it's the only way for me to resist that sneaking bug.
I remember that we discussed this workaround some years ago in the Illustrator Windows forum. I seem to remember that you couldn't get it to work reliably.
I'd still like to know if the workaround does work for someone else.