Quark 8 - slow script when reading table content

Hi,

after upgrading to 10.6 and Quark 8 i have severall speed problem using existing applescripts in Quark 8. The script bellow need only 1 sec to finish but in quark 8 - 40 sec (in th applescript row → set OTab to story 1 of every generic cell).
Any idea how to change the syntax to SPEED UP the script?! I have already noticed, if i delete all other picture and text objects in quark document (letting only the table to read the data from) i get better resullts but it is stil 10x slower comparing to quark 7 and 10.5

tell application “QuarkXPress”
activate

--Preveri Tabelu i preberi podatke
tell document 1
	set TableFound to false
	set brojac to 1
	set TabNUM to "Ni Tabele"
	
	repeat until TableFound
		try
			set TableName to name of table box brojac
		on error
			display dialog TabNUM
			return
		end try
		
		if TableName = "Tabela" then
			set TableFound to true
			set TabNUM to brojac
		else
			set brojac to brojac + 1
		end if
	end repeat
	
	set NameOfTable to name of table box TabNUM
	
	tell table box TabNUM
		set OTab to story 1 of every generic cell
	end tell
	
	set imeDoc20crk to ""
	set NovoIme to item 1 of OTab
	display dialog NovoIme
end tell

end tell

Model: iMac 27" i7, Mac OS 10.6.4, Quark 8.1.6.2
AppleScript: ScriptEditor 2.3, version 2.1.2
Browser: Safari 533.16
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.6)