Tell application to active from Entourage very slow

I have a very simple script I placed in ~/MUD/Entourage Script Menu Items/ that only contains:

tell application "RAND Enterprise Entourage Client (EEC)" to activate

When this script is selected from the script menu, it takes forever (about 2 minutes) for the app to launch and Entourage is locked up while it’s lunching. But when I launch the app directly, or even when I run the script outside of Entourage it launches immediately.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Look at the second paragraph in post #2 here for a possible cause…
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=29830