Unexpected behaviour running AppleScript on Universal G5

I am puzzled about some strange behaviour when I attempt to run a script that was working Ok on my G5 (Mac OS only) on a friend's new G5 (dual core).
First, when I ran it the first time I found a whole bunch of code added which referred to opening multiple windows (my script was duplicating folders). Definitely this code was not in the code I had developed.
Then it began failing in rather strange ways, so I looked into the console log and saw that around the same time that the system was not able to load QXPScriptingAdditions. My friend does have Quark Express on her machine but my script does not reference it in anyway. Why is the system attempting to load this file?
I admit that I haven't given a very detailed description of what happened but perhaps someone has an idea what is happening.

This is my fourth attempt ... due to network timeouts when I attempt to post
First things first, try disabling notorious
QXPScriptingAdditions and recompile the script on the
machine in question and run it to see how it goes.
To disable the OSAX, remove
QXPScriptingAdditions.osax from either of the
followings:
/Library/ScriptingAdditions/
~/Library/ScriptingAdditions/
and re-login or perhaps re-start the computer.
I did rename it ... but I probably should have removed it.
Also make sure you copy the original source code
(text version) of the script to the problem machine
and compile it there. (If something odd is to happen
it should be at this compile stage, I think.)
That is what I did
Should the script be OK without QXPScriptingAdditions
the culprit is obvious. Or else currently I have no
idea about what's going on.
I did have another application error which I have since fixed but it should not have caused the conditions that I experienced.
Tomorrow I hope to test the new, hopefully bug free, version of the program and will report back then.

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