User interaction from (pre/post) install/flight scripts

I have a perl postinstall script, I have the script running perfectly from the command line. it looks to see if certain processes are running, if they are it displays an apple script dialog box telling them to close the application.
there are two problems when i run from postinstall mode in the installer.
The dialog box does not appear, and the ps command comes up with a different list of running processes, i am guessing there is some sort of chroot jail going on with the installer process, that does not let it display items to the running window manager and prevents me from looking at running commands and i can actually understand security behind these thoughts, but is there a way around them?

I strongly suggest you ask this in the developer forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=164

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