Remote Applescript hanging (over wireless) - 'remote apple events' security bug

[steve harley]

they whom i call Jim Witte wrote:
> Just found the error - "Remote Aple Events" wasn't on on the target 
> machine.  In this case, it would be nice if the local script would *tell 
> you that* instead of just hanging..  

my guess is it just listens for a response, and doesn't get one, 
which could mean lots of things