This hint pointed out that this older hint for running Automator workflows from AppleScript was broken. But if you saved your Automator workflow as an application rather than a workflow, then used AppleScript to open it, it would run. Although I did not see this as a real hint as opposed to an obvious behavior, it was the only way to get Automator workflows to run via AppleScript -- until now. Coming back to this on a whim, it seems the 10.5.1 update has fixed this problem, and the older hint now works correctly. For example... tell application "Automator Launcher" to open "Macintosh HD:Users:userNmae:Desktop:foo.workflow" ...works as expected under 10.5.1.

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