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I've also noticed that 'make new ...' seems not to return an alias. I was under the impression that it did, but I've found that I now have to put '... as alias' after the 'make new ...' command to make scripts work right. Has something changed or is my memory defective? I will look further into this.

My memory is defective. I used this script, with notes, to run some tests.

tell application "Finder"
set x to (make new folder at desktop with properties {name:"TEST-FOLDER"}) -- as alias
set varType to (class of x) as text
try
set objType to (class of item x) as text
on error
set objType to "error"
end try
display dialog varType & ", " & objType
end tell

-- with 'as alias', displays "alias, folder" in 10.4.11, 10.5 and 10.6.
-- comment out 'as alias', then ...
--
-- in 10.5.8, displays "folder, error". Should display "?, folder"
-- in 10.6.1, displays "folder, error". Should display "?, folder"
-- in 10.4.11, displays "folder, error". Should display "?, folder"

Notice that 'x' is NOT a folder, but a pointer of some kind to a folder. So, what is the 'class of x'? I am unable to determine this when 'as alias' is commented out. Something seems to be wrong, here.

But what?