Dave Winer of Userland Software: Ominous words from Steve Zellers for all developers who use AppleEvents (like us). “A future release of the AppleEvent Manager in OS X may break some applications.” Oy. 
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You must not use AEGetDescData or AEGetDescDataSize to extract data from an AERecord or AEList. Trying to do anything with the dataHandle of a desc that contains a list or a record will result in Very Bad Things. Use the AEGet* APIs to get the data from a record or list.Guilty! I’ve done that in System 7 Pack. oy! is right.