Switching apps

I wrote an AppleScript that asks a few questions, then writes some text to the clipboard based on the answers. The script then stays open an additional 5 seconds giving me time to paste the text before removing the text from the clipboard and quitting itself.
My question would be, is there any way that when I hit the "Okay" button on the last question that the last-used application would become active automatically (rather than the script app)? Since my system knows what the last-used app was, it seems there should be some way for AppleScript to figure it out.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hi Greg,
I don't think the system keeps tracks of which process is second, third, etc. I think it uses the windows to find which process is next. What you can do is hide your app wiht somehting like this:
tell application "Finder"
set visible of process "MyName" to false
end tell
where MyName is the name of your scirpt application without the .app extension. You can also get the name of your app through script, but this is easier.
gl,

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