deleting login items

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I am able to add new login items (for my user in the Accounts preference pane) without trouble, but unable to later delete them. None of the different variations of “delete login item” works. The code works fine in Panther 10.3.9; I’m assuming it broke in Tiger (10.4.2) but does anyone know a workaround? Here’s my code:

on addLoginItem(itemPath)
	dbg("adding login item " & itemPath)
	try
		set itemPOSIXPath to (POSIX path of itemPath)
		tell application "System Events"
			try
				delete (every login item whose name is "myGreatApp")
			end try
			make login item at end with properties {path:itemPOSIXPath, hidden:false, name:"myGreatApp"}
		end tell
	end try
end addLoginItem

on removeLoginItem(itemPath)
	try
		set itemPOSIXPath to (POSIX path of itemPath)
		tell application "System Events"
			try
				delete (every login item whose name is "myGreatApp")
			on error
				try
					delete (login item whose path is itemPOSIXPath)
				on error
					if last character of itemPOSIXPath is "/" then
						set alternatePath to text 1 thru -2 of itemPOSIXPath
						delete (login item whose path is alternatePath)
					end if
				end try
			end try
		end tell
	end try
end removeLoginItem

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