Hiding Folders via Apple Script

Good evening,
When i installed Leopard a got up a little Issue: When i look in my harddrive i can see the the folder "var,usr,etc" ... in the normal Finder Window.
Well i thought it would be some kind of a bug so i helped myself and used a little apple script i allreade used in Tiger to hide all these annoying folders like "Microsoft Users Data etc." You know what i mean
My Script does this:
+set myfile to choose file+
+tell application "System Events" to set visible of myfile to false+
+tell application "Finder" to update myfile+
I should be able to pick a file (have done the same for folders, too) and hide it from the normal Finder window. Well it works fine on causaul folder and data.
But on these UNIX Folder i mentoined it wont work. My Question: How can i get this to work? (I thought of missing admin priviledges?)

Try the instructions in this article.
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