Michelle may have overlooked one step that is required: you need to
specify that the resulting program should run at start-up as one of
your log-in items.
You can set this in Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts
tab -> Login Items.
I believe that he already knew this because he wrote "At present my
mac starts up, the script editor opens my script and from there it is
waiting for me to hit "Run"."
--
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as
reading sex manuals without the software.
-- Clarke's sixth law
